宫商角徵羽
Traditional form:
宮商角徵羽
Pinyin (reading):
gōngshāngjuézhǐyǔ
Definitions:
- pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la
Characters:
- 宫 - palace; surname
- 商 - commerce, business, trade
- 角 - angle, corner; horn, horn-shaped
- 徵 - to summon, to recruit; levy, tax; journey; invasion
- 羽 - feather, plume; wings
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