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original: 巢

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Mouth organ (Southeast Asia)

Identical types: 20
Shēng

Literal translation: "nest", according to Blench "presumably because it resembles a bird’s nest"; A medium size Shēng type encountered in "oracle bone" inscriptions dating from the 15th century BC; NB: ➺ Hé shēng, Yú shēng.

Sources

Blench, Roger: The history and distribution of the free-reed mouth-organ in SE Asia (presented at the 14th EurASEAA meeting, Dublin, September 2012 (Draft submitted for proceedings, 2012), p.5-6.

Dictionaries, &c.

汉英词典 (Hàn Yīng cídiǎn) / A Chinese-English dictionary. 北京 [Běijīng], 1985, p.79.