sheng
Meanings
noun
- A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).
name
- A Kenyan cant based on Swahili and English.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From Mandarin 笙 (shēng).
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