lài

bamboo flute

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of .

賴 sound component

  Sound component

lài

  

depend on

Evolution

籟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
籟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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lài

bamboo flute; pipe; various sound; a sound; a noise; musical pipe with 3 reeds

Most common words with 籟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

天籁

sounds of nature

万籁俱寂

not a sound to be heard (idiom)

a sound

万籁无声

dead silent

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*rˤa[t]-s

lajH

lài

tube


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4150th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

Unicode

U+7C5F

Shuowen

“籟,三孔龠也。大者謂之笙,其中謂之籟,小者謂之葯。从竹,賴聲。”


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