Meanings
Flute, Clarinet, Pipe, Whistle, Bagpipe, Piccolo
Radicals
Decomposition
⿱⺮由
Etymology
Ideographic: A bamboo ⺮ flute 由
Writing Practice
Stroke Order
Words Using This Kanji
50 words totalstar snapper (species of fish, Lutjanus stellatus)
flute constructed of bamboo
spotstripe snapper (species of fish, Lutjanus ophuysenii)
piping plover (Charadrius melodus)
shō (Japanese free reed musical instrument)
pitch pipe
kagura flute (six-holed horizontal flute)
kagura flute (six-holed horizontal flute)
dragon flute
Korean flute (horizontal bamboo flute with six holes; highest-pitched flute used in gagaku)
dog whistle
we have piped unto you and ye have not danced
bamboo flute used in Qing music
whistling through one's fingers
longnose butterfly fish (Forcipiger flavissimus, species of butterflyfish from the Indo-Pacific)
small-toothed jobfish (Aphareus furca)
chinamanfish (Symphorus nematophorus)
Papuan black snapper (Lutjanus goldiei)
mangrove jack (Lutjanus argentimaculatus)
upstage left pillar (on a noh stage), next to the flute player