笛

Meaning

笛 centers on wind instruments that produce sound through a hollow tube: flutes, pipes, and whistles. The specific instrument names (clarinet, bagpipe, piccolo) are natural extensions of this core idea of a blown musical pipe.

• 笛ふえ
  N3

  flute; fife; pipe; recorder; flageolet; shakuhachi; clarinet

• 口笛くちぶえ
  N1

  whistle (sound made with the lips)

• 笛吹きふえふき

  flute player; flutist; flautist; piper

• 汽笛きてき
  N1

  steam whistle

• 警笛けいてき

  horn; alarm; whistle; foghorn

• 角笛つのぶえ

  horn (instrument; made of animal horn); bugle; hunting horn

• 篠笛しのぶえ

  Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes)

• 横笛よこぶえ

  transverse flute (e.g. a fife)

• 草笛くさぶえ

  reed pipe

• 鼓笛隊こてきたい

  drum and fife band

• ハーメルンの笛吹き男ハーメルンのふえふきおとこ

  the Pied Piper of Hamelin

• 口笛を吹くくちぶえをふく

  to whistle

• 号笛ごうてき

  siren; whistle

• 喉笛のどぶえ

  windpipe

• 四條笛鯛よすじふえだい

  bluestripe snapper (Lutjanus kasmira); bluestripe seaperch

• 太笛ふとぶえ

  kagura flute (six-holed horizontal flute)

• 指笛ゆびぶえ

  whistling through one's fingers; whistle made by sticking one's fingers in one's mouth and blowing

• 横条笛鯛よこすじふえだい

  spotstripe snapper (species of fish, Lutjanus ophuysenii)

• 浜笛吹はまふえふき

  spangled emperor (species of emperor bream, Lethrinus nebulosus)

• 浦内笛鯛うらうちふえだい

  Papuan black snapper (Lutjanus goldiei)

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