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  • free reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙[sheng1], used in ancient China
Trad. 濫竽
  • indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification)
  • see 濫竽充數|滥竽充数[lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4]
  • player of the yu 竽[yu2] (free reed wind instrument)
Trad. 濫竽充數
  • lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products
  • to masquerade as having an ability
  • token member of a group

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