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巴烏

简巴乌 · 繁巴烏

Mandarin · pinyin bā wū

bawu, a free reed wind instrument shaped like a flute and played transversally, associated particularly with minority cultures of Yunnan

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巴: bā · greatly desire, anxiously hope
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乌: wū · crow, rook, raven; black, dark

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1–1 · ba1 wu1

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bawu (a side-blown free reed pipe with finger holes originally from the Yunnan province of southwest China)

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