n. A Chinese wind instrument, being 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).
Word Usage
""In China, the Olympic fire is called sheng huo, which is given a sacred meaning," said Jin Yuanpu, president of the humanistic Olympic Games studies of Renmin University of China in Beijing."