shēng

  1. shēng noun a small gourd-shaped musical instrument
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '笙'; Guoyu '笙' n 1; Unihan '笙')
  2. shēng noun Chinese style music
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '笙' n 2)
  3. shēng noun a woven bamboo mat
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '笙' n 3)
  4. shēng noun a musical instrument; sughoṣaka
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: sughoṣaka, Japanese: sou, or: shou (BCSD '笙', p. 915; MW 'sughoṣaka'; Unihan '笙')

Also contained in

胡笙排笙笙管笙簧笙箫笙歌竹笙芦笙

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 1 Mahāyānābhisamaya (Zheng Qi Dasheng Jing) 證契大乘經 — count: 4
  • Scroll 19 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 3
  • Scroll 1 Records of Taitai Shan (Tiantai Shan Ji) 天台山記 — count: 3
  • Scroll 6 Da Ming Du Jing 大明度經 — count: 2 , has English translation , has parallel version
  • Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Ru Jing 如淨和尚語錄 — count: 2
  • Scroll 35 A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀 — count: 2 , has English translation
  • Scroll 18 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 2
  • Scroll 1 Zhong Tianzhu Shewei Guo Zhihuan Si Tu Jing 中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經 — count: 2
  • Scroll 41 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶 — count: 1
  • Scroll 9 Beishan Record 北山錄 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 吹笙 (吹笙) 譬如吹笙師 — Da Ming Du Jing 大明度經, Scroll 6 — count: 11
  • 笙笛 (笙笛) 琵琶笙笛及角貝 — Fo Shuo Dasheng Zhi Yin Jing 佛說大乘智印經, Scroll 4 — count: 10
  • 笙竿 (笙竿) 穆如笙竿 — Le Bang Wenlei 樂邦文類, Scroll 3 — count: 4
  • 笙鼓 (笙鼓) 及笙鼓等 — Mahāyānābhisamaya (Zheng Qi Dasheng Jing) 證契大乘經, Scroll 1 — count: 4
  • 笙水底 (笙水底) 石女含笙水底吸 — Quotations from Abbot Ru Jing 如淨和尚語錄, Scroll 1 — count: 4
  • 含笙 (含笙) 石女含笙井底吹 — Quotations from Chan Master Yuanwu Foguo 圓悟佛果禪師語錄, Scroll 2 — count: 3
  • 笙篁 (笙篁) 罷奏笙篁夜欲闌 — Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄, Scroll 8 — count: 3
  • 笙镛 (笙鏞) 土鼓不可作於笙鏞間知之秋 — The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations 勅修百丈清規, Scroll 8 — count: 3
  • 匏笙 (匏笙) 匏笙也 — Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略, Scroll 3 — count: 3
  • 笙瑟 (笙瑟) 或執銅鈸笙瑟笳簫 — Fo Ben Xing Ji Jing (Abhiniṣkramaṇasūtra) 佛本行集經, Scroll 16 — count: 3