ふえ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ふえ – see the following entry.

【笛】3 [noun] [from 720] (music) a flute, whistle, pipe [noun] [from 934] (anatomy, rare) a windpipe [noun] [from early 1200s] (music) a side-blown flute, as opposed to end-blown instruments such as the 篳篥 (hichiriki) [noun] a whistle such as that used by a referee [noun] [from 1910] a train whistle

(This term, ふえ (fue), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) For a list of all kanji read as ふえ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ふえ.)