Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- xiāo
English
- musical instrument like pan-pipes, bamboo flute
- xiao, a vertical bamboo flute
- Chinese vertical flute; xiao
粵語
- 專指單管打棟吹嘅樂器；正面有至少五個窿，背面一個，吹口就喺頂端邊緣；又稱為「洞簫」（量詞：枝）
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Words containing 簫
- 吹簫ceoi1 siu1
to play the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1], a vertical bamboo flute
- 鼻簫bei6 siu1
nose flute
- 笙簫sang1 siu1
reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute
- 排簫paai4 siu1
panpipes
- 玉人吹簫juk6 jan4 ceoi1 siu1
virtuoso piper wins a beauty
- 吳市吹簫ng4 si5 ceoi1 siu1
(idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])
- 吹簫乞食ceoi1 siu1 hat1 sik6
see 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫[wu2 shi4 chui1 xiao1]