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Chinese mouth-blown free reed instrument
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sheng

Summary

sheng ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (898 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • sheng is a type of free reed aerophone[2].
  • sheng's Commons category is recorded as Sheng[3].
  • sheng's country of origin is recorded as China[4].
  • sheng's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sheng[5].
  • sheng's Commons gallery is recorded as 笙[6].
  • sheng's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[7].
  • sheng's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • sheng's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[9].
  • sheng's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10].
  • sheng's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • sheng's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 412.132[12].
  • sheng's different from is recorded as Sheng[13].
  • sheng's different from is recorded as shō[14].
  • sheng's different from is recorded as saenghwang[15].
  • sheng's different from is recorded as guzheng[16].
  • sheng's different from is recorded as lu sheng[17].

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Definition and Type

sheng is a type of free reed aerophone[2].

Why It Matters

sheng ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (898 views/month).[1] sheng has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] sheng is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

China

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin → —
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → free reed aerophone
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007536433805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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