Sheng

Origin

From Chinese 笙 (pinyin: shēng); character consists of upper part ("bamboo") and lower part ("born")

Full definition of sheng

Noun

1. A Chinese wind instrument, being a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).----