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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *线* | 线* | *线
thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條|条, , / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)
HSK 3
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弹* | 弹* | *弹
to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials)
HSK 5
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *串* | 串* | *串
to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across
HSK 6
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吊* | 吊* | *吊
a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with / variant of
HSK 6
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *筑* | 筑* | *筑
five-string lute / Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
HSK 7-9
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拨* | 拨* | *拨
to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc / to dial / to allocate / to set aside (money) / to poke (the fire) / to pluck (a string instrument) / to turn round / classifier: group, batch
HSK 7-9
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弦* | 弦* | *弦
bow string / string of musical instrument / watchspring / chord (segment of curve) / hypotenuse / CL:
HSK 7-9
firecrackers / string of small firecrackers / CL:
HSK 7-9
cord; string; rope / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
a series of / a string of
HSK 7-9
to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *贯* | 贯* | *贯
to pierce through / to pass through / to be stringed together / string of 1000 cash
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阮* | 阮* | *阮
ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute
lit. warp string in weaving / fig. vertical or north-south lines / to pass through / to cross lengthwise / to pierce (esp. north-south or top-to-bottom)
erhu (Chinese 2-string fiddle) / alto fiddle / CL:
(of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off
to play (musical instrument, esp. string)
to sing and play (plucked string instrument)
string (of a stringed instrument)
morin khuur (Mongolian bowed stringed instrument)
to pluck (a string)
string bean / snap bean / green bean
string / thread
string music
to sing to a string accompaniment / education (a reference to teaching the people Confucian values by means of song in ancient times)
to pierce through / to string together
to wind up a watch, clockwork toy etc / to tighten the string of a bow, violin etc / first quarter (phase of the moon)
huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra
yangqin / dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument)
vibrato (of stringed instrument) / trill (in phonetics)
a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *镪* | 镪* | *镪
money / string of coins
string of pearl and jade (idiom); ideal combination / perfect pair
qin and se, two string instruments that play in perfect harmony / marital harmony
string bag / mesh bag / net bag
tuning (stringed instrument) / (fig.) to make up one's mind
knot (on a rope or string)
player of a stringed instrument
joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row
to measure roughly (with the hand, a stick, string etc)
string to tie hair
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *绾* | 绾* | *绾
bind up / string together
jinghu, a smaller, higher-pitched erhu 二胡 (two-stringed fiddle) used to accompany Chinese opera / also called 京二胡
string / cotton rope
ball of string
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *缗* | 缗* | *缗
cord / fishing-line / string of coins
widowed / lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟 qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捯* | 捯* | *捯
(coll.) to reel in (string, yarn etc) by pulling hand over hand or by coiling / to step along / to look into / to pursue (a matter)
gayageum (Korean 12-stringed zither)
a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore)
change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction / to dance to a different tune
guqin or seven-stringed zither
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *纙* | 纙* | *纙
string on which coins are strung
string of copper coins (in ancient China) / (fig.) an overly money-oriented person / (zoology) centipede
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搊* | 搊* | *搊
pluck (stringed instrument)
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *襁* | 襁* | *襁
string of copper coins / variant of
string / twine / cord
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *絃* | 絃* | *絃
variant of / bow string / string of musical instrument / watch spring / chord (straight line joining two points on a curve) / hypotenuse
string of cash
hard to play (of music for stringed instrument)
Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road
string instrument
string (computing)
plucked string or stringed instrument / plucked instrument
bow (of a stringed instrument)
G-string
lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom) / fig. people who are in it together for better or worse / people who will sink or swim together
shamisen, three-stringed Japanese musical instrument
string processing (computing)
jing'erhu, a two-stringed fiddle intermediate in size and pitch between the jinghu 京胡 and erhu 二胡, used to accompany Chinese opera / also called 京胡
two-stringed bowed instrument / also called 墜琴|坠琴
(computing) character string (Tw)
Changde sixian, theatrical folk music style with singing in Changde dialect accompanied by traditional string instruments
string orchestra
string theory (physics)
string theory (in theoretical physics)
string instrument
plucked string music
plucked string instrument / CL:
to be lined up (like a chain of islands, a string of pearls etc) / to form a cluster (like a bunch of grapes) / to come one after the other (like a series of sighs)
hammered string type (of musical instrument)
hammered string musical instrument
(angling) to play a fish / (kite-flying) to let the string out / (dating) to play the field
gayageum (Korean 12-stringed zither)
fretless (stringed instrument)
special correspondent / stringer
player of a stringed instrument
out of tune / marital discord, cf qin and se 琴瑟, two string instruments as symbol of marital harmony
sound producing object (soundboard, vibrating string, membrane etc)
string (as in "character string")
an elaborate string of references / many quotations
man behind the mirror / puppet master / string puller
quantum foam (in string theory, and science fiction)


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