横笛

See also: 橫笛

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 横笛 – see 橫笛 (“transverse flute; yokobue”). (This term, 横笛, is the simplified form of 橫笛.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Compound of 横 (yoko, “sideways; horizontal”) +‎ 笛 (fue, “flute”).^[1]^[2] The fue changes to bue as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Compare 縦笛 (tatebue), which refers to an end-blown flute held vertically.

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) よこぶえ [yòkóbúé] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
- (Tokyo) よこぶえ [yòkóbúꜜè] (Nakadaka – [3])^[2]
- IPA^(key): [jo̞ko̞bɯ̟ᵝe̞]

横笛 (hiragana よこぶえ, rōmaji yokobue)

a transverse flute
more specifically, a kind of bamboo transverse flute used to play traditional Japanese court music

↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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