ancient wind instrument made of a series of bamboo pipes of different lengths bound together; usually consists of sixteen to twenty-four tubes

to play the [[箫|簫|xiao1]], a vertical bamboo flute

A vertical bamboo flute with six or more finger holes; also simply called [[箫|簫|xiao1]]

panpipes and double flutes; wind instruments in general

(idiom) to beg for food or money in public; to fall into deep poverty or wander about in destitution. This is an allusion to the story of [[伍子胥|伍子胥|wu3 zi3 xu1]] who, while fleeing to the state of Wu, was forced to play the flute to beg for food in the marketplace.

panpipes or an ancient type of wind instrument; also used to describe the beautiful sound of a flute

(literary) an ancient wind instrument (panpipes) shaped like a phoenix wing; according to legend, played by the figures Xiao Shi and Nong Yu

A wooden vertical flute or clarinet-like instrument.

virtuoso player of the xiao (vertical mouth organ); metaphor for a beautiful woman, a romantic tryst, or an ideal couple, based on the legend of [[箫史|蕭史|xiao1 shi3]] (whose playing won the daughter of Duke Mu of Qin) or Du Mu's poem referring to a beauty in Yangzhou

A traditional vertical flute made of jade.

the [[笙|笙|sheng1]] (reed-pipe wind instrument) and the [[箫|簫|xiao1]] (vertical bamboo flute)

legendary figure of the Spring and Autumn Period, a master of the vertical flute whose music attracted the daughter of Duke Mu of Qin, whom he later married

A type of traditional flute played by blowing air from the nose, common among certain ethnic groups in southern China and Southeast Asia. Asia.