sheng
Speech parts
1. sheng - Noun
2. Sheng - Proper noun
Meaning
sheng (plural shengs)
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).
Sheng
A Kenyan cant based on Swahili and English.
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Below the level of the province (sheng 省) were prefectures (fu 府) operating under a prefect (zhifu 知府), followed by subprefectures (zhou 州) under a subprefect.
Chun Sheng was the third cub to be born in the centre this year after a pair of male cubs, which had been delivered by 16-year-old panda Fuwa, or the 'lucky doll'.
Ceramic movable type Bi Sheng (毕昇/畢昇) (990–1051) developed the first known movable-type system for printing in China around 1040 AD during the Northern Song dynasty, using ceramic materials.
Bibliothèque nationale de France The Chinese inventor Bi Sheng made movable type of earthenware circa 1045, but there are no known surviving examples of his printing.
Fraser & Haber, 227. *1041–1048 – Artisan Bi Sheng of Song dynasty China invents movable type printing using individual ceramic characters.
Further reading * Ma Huan : Ying Yai Sheng Lan, The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores, translated by J.V.G. Mills, 1970 Hakluyt Society, reprint 1997 White Lotus Press.