noun:

• flute-player seating area (noh), behind upstage left

noun:

• shakuhachi; end-blown fippleless bamboo flute
• blow job; fellatio - slang - vulgar

noun:

• Champagne glass; Champagne flute

noun:

• reed pipe; reed flute

noun:

• ocarina (type of flute) - From Italian

noun:

• quena (Andean flute) - From Spanish

noun:

• candy vendor (esp. an Edo-period candy vendor who sold candy while walking around playing the flute or another musical instrument); candy vender

noun:

• dongxiao (Chinese bamboo flute similar to a shakuhachi)

noun:

• xiao (vertical Chinese bamboo flute) ➜ 洞簫・排簫

noun:

• xiao (vertical Chinese bamboo flute) - obscure term ➜ 簫

noun:

• begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

noun:

• shawm-like instrument played by street vendors (sometimes referred to as a flute) - From Portuguese "charamela" ➜ 哨吶【さない】

noun:

• thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters) ➜ 篠竹【しのだけ】
• Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes) ［しの］ - abbreviation ➜ 篠笛
• sliver (strand of loose fibers) ［しの］

noun:

• key
• flute constructed of bamboo

noun:

• recorder (e.g. tape recorder, time recorder); recording device ［レコーダー・レコーダ］
• recorder (musical instrument); English flute - usu. リコーダー

noun:

• quadruple time; four-four time; common time - Music term
• the four instruments in the accompanying orchestra in noh, etc. (flute, floor drum, small hand drum, large hand drum) - Music term ➜ 囃子【はやし】・笛【ふえ】・大鼓【おおつづみ】・小鼓【こつづみ】・太鼓【たいこ】

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to blow fiercely; to rage - esp. 吹き荒ぶ
• to play (a flute, etc.) for fun - esp. 吹き遊ぶ - archaism

interjection:

• oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.

expression:

• hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• lightly (floating); buoyantly - onomatopoeia
• puffing (on a pipe, cigarette, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• tooting (a trumpet, horn, etc.); blowing (a flute, whistle) - onomatopoeia