箫 簫
箫簫 in English
- xiao, a Chinese musical instrument of ancient times, similar to panpipes
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 簫, the traditional character: 箫 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋中期 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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我听说经理的妻子出去度假了。这时就是山中无老虎，猴子称大王了。现在经理他夜夜笙箫。
I heard the manager's wife is on vacation. And, well, when the cat's away, the mice play. Now he's out partying every night.