free reed mouth organ, with wooden pipes stuck into a gourd )
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竽 is a 9 stroke, simplified and traditional Chinese character and is pronounced as yú in the second tone.
It is made up of the components ⺮ (bamboo) and 于 (preposition).
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Pronunciation
We found 1 pronunciation for 竽
Definitions for 竽 pronounced as yú
- free reed mouth organ, with wooden pipes stuck into a gourd (larger version of 笙[sheng1])
Vocabulary
The most common words for 竽 — see all
- indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification)
- see 濫竽充數|滥竽充数[lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4]
- player of the yu 竽 (free reed mouth organ)
- lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products
- to masquerade as having an ability
- token member of a group