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- 1.xiao, a vertical bamboo flute
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排箫 panpipes笙箫 reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute鼻箫 nose flute吹箫 to play the xiao 箫[xiāo], a vertical bamboo flute玉人吹箫 virtuoso piper wins a beauty吹箫乞食 see 吴市吹箫[wú shì chuī xiāo]吴市吹箫 (idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[Wǔ Zǐ xū] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史记[Shǐ jì])