"sheng" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Mandarin",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "笙",
        "tr": "shēng"
      },
      "expansion": "笙 (shēng)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 笙 (shēng).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shengs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sheng (plural shengs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Manchu terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Manchu translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Musical instruments",
          "orig": "en:Musical instruments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Woodwind instruments",
          "orig": "en:Woodwind instruments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "sho"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              25
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 120:",
          "text": "The appearance of a sheng in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century inspired the development of free reed instruments in Western Europe, including the harmonica, accordion, and symphonium (see next page).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Chinese wind instrument, 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)."
      ],
      "id": "en-sheng-en-noun-rFjMO2n~",
      "links": [
        [
          "Chinese",
          "Chinese"
        ],
        [
          "wind instrument",
          "wind instrument"
        ],
        [
          "free-reed",
          "free reed"
        ],
        [
          "mouth organ",
          "mouth organ"
        ],
        [
          "bamboo",
          "bamboo"
        ],
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ],
        [
          "gourd",
          "gourd"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "english": "also derived from Chinese, though not necessarily related",
          "translation": "also derived from Chinese, though not necessarily related",
          "word": "sheng nu"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "lang_code": "cmn",
          "roman": "shēng",
          "sense": "Chinese wind instrument",
          "word": "笙"
        },
        {
          "code": "mnc",
          "lang": "Manchu",
          "lang_code": "mnc",
          "roman": "baksangga ficakū",
          "sense": "Chinese wind instrument",
          "word": "ᠪᠠᡴᠰᠠᠩᡤᠠ ᡶᡳᠴᠠᡴᡡ"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃʌŋ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃɛŋ/",
      "note": "anglicized"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sheng.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sheng.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sheng.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sheng.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sheng.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌŋ"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛŋ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sheng"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Mandarin",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "笙",
        "tr": "shēng"
      },
      "expansion": "笙 (shēng)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 笙 (shēng).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shengs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sheng (plural shengs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "also derived from Chinese, though not necessarily related",
      "translation": "also derived from Chinese, though not necessarily related",
      "word": "sheng nu"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Mandarin",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Manchu terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛŋ",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛŋ/1 syllable",
        "Rhymes:English/ʌŋ",
        "Rhymes:English/ʌŋ/1 syllable",
        "Terms with Manchu translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "en:Musical instruments",
        "en:Woodwind instruments"
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "sho"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              25
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 120:",
          "text": "The appearance of a sheng in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century inspired the development of free reed instruments in Western Europe, including the harmonica, accordion, and symphonium (see next page).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Chinese wind instrument, 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)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Chinese",
          "Chinese"
        ],
        [
          "wind instrument",
          "wind instrument"
        ],
        [
          "free-reed",
          "free reed"
        ],
        [
          "mouth organ",
          "mouth organ"
        ],
        [
          "bamboo",
          "bamboo"
        ],
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ],
        [
          "gourd",
          "gourd"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃʌŋ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃɛŋ/",
      "note": "anglicized"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sheng.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sheng.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sheng.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sheng.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sheng.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌŋ"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛŋ"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "shēng",
      "sense": "Chinese wind instrument",
      "word": "笙"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "lang_code": "mnc",
      "roman": "baksangga ficakū",
      "sense": "Chinese wind instrument",
      "word": "ᠪᠠᡴᠰᠠᠩᡤᠠ ᡶᡳᠴᠠᡴᡡ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sheng"
}