| 竽 | |||
| ancient woodwind instrument | |||
| Radical | 竹𥫗 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 3 | Total Strokes | 9 |
| Mandarin reading | yú | Cantonese reading | jyu1 jyu4 |
| Japanese on reading | u | Japanese kun reading | hue |
| Korean reading | wu | Vietnamese reading | |
| 竽 | |||
| ancient woodwind instrument | |||
| Radical | 竹𥫗 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 3 | Total Strokes | 9 |
| Mandarin reading | yú | Cantonese reading | jyu1 jyu4 |
| Japanese on reading | u | Japanese kun reading | hue |
| Korean reading | wu | Vietnamese reading | |
| 竽 | [ yú ] free reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙[sheng1], used in ancient China |
| ⇒ 吹竽手 | [ chuī yú shoǔ ] player of the yu 竽[yu2] (free reed wind instrument) |
| ⇒ 濫竽 | [ làn yú ] indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification), see 濫竽充數|滥竽充数[lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4] |
| ⇒ 濫竽充數 | [ làn yú chōng shù ] 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 |