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  *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
a series of / a string of
HSK 7-9
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  *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
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  *线* | 线* | *线
thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條|条, , / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)
HSK 3
firecrackers / string of small firecrackers / CL:
HSK 7-9
morin khuur (Mongolian bowed stringed instrument)
string bean / snap bean / green bean
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  *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
cord; string; rope / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
to pluck (a string)
string instrument
guqin or seven-stringed zither
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  *弦* | 弦* | *弦
bow string / string of musical instrument / watchspring / chord (segment of curve) / hypotenuse / CL:
HSK 7-9
shamisen, three-stringed Japanese musical instrument
string processing (computing)
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
to play (musical instrument, esp. string)
change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction / to dance to a different tune
string music
a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore)
plucked string or stringed instrument / plucked instrument
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
to wind up a watch, clockwork toy etc / to tighten the string of a bow, violin etc / first quarter (phase of the moon)
qin and se, two string instruments that play in perfect harmony / marital harmony
to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument
string orchestra
string (of a stringed instrument)
(computing) character string (Tw)
to sing and play (plucked string instrument)
erhu (Chinese 2-string fiddle) / alto fiddle / CL:
string to tie hair
plucked string music
tuning (stringed instrument) / (fig.) to make up one's mind
yangqin / dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument)
string (computing)
(of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off
player of a stringed instrument
special correspondent / stringer
Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road
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  *筑* | 筑* | *筑
five-string lute / Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
HSK 7-9
lit. string and wind instruments (idiom) / fig. traditional Chinese ensemble music
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  *绾* | 绾* | *绾
bind up / string together
string theory (physics)
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  *吊* | 吊* | *吊
a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with / variant of
HSK 6
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)
lit. (music instruments made of) metal, stone, string, and bamboo (idiom) / fig. traditional Chinese music instruments
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)
out of tune / marital discord, cf qin and se 琴瑟, two string instruments as symbol of marital harmony
string bag / mesh bag / net bag
hammered string type (of musical instrument)
plucked string instrument / CL:
string (as in "character string")
string / twine / cord
to measure roughly (with the hand, a stick, string etc)
knot (on a rope or string)
ball of string
huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
widowed / lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟 qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *贯* | 贯* | *贯
to pierce through / to pass through / to be stringed together / string of 1000 cash
two-stringed bowed instrument / also called 墜琴|坠琴
bow (of a stringed instrument)
fretless (stringed instrument)
Changde sixian, theatrical folk music style with singing in Changde dialect accompanied by traditional string instruments
string of pearl and jade (idiom); ideal combination / perfect pair
hammered string musical instrument
vibrato (of stringed instrument) / trill (in phonetics)
jinghu, a smaller, higher-pitched erhu 二胡 (two-stringed fiddle) used to accompany Chinese opera / also called 京二胡
(angling) to play a fish / (kite-flying) to let the string out / (dating) to play the field
sound producing object (soundboard, vibrating string, membrane etc)
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
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  *纙* | 纙* | *纙
string on which coins are strung
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搊* | 搊* | *搊
pluck (stringed instrument)
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  *缗* | 缗* | *缗
cord / fishing-line / string of coins
string of copper coins (in ancient China) / (fig.) an overly money-oriented person / (zoology) centipede
string of cash
player of a stringed instrument
to pierce through / to string together
quantum foam (in string theory, and science fiction)
gayageum (Korean 12-stringed zither)
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  *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)
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  *阮* | 阮* | *阮
ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute
G-string
an elaborate string of references / many quotations
joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row
to sing to a string accompaniment / education (a reference to teaching the people Confucian values by means of song in ancient times)
gayageum (Korean 12-stringed zither)
string / thread
man behind the mirror / puppet master / string puller
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  *镪* | 镪* | *镪
money / string of coins
a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard
string theory (in theoretical physics)
hard to play (of music for stringed instrument)
string instrument
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  *絃* | 絃* | *絃
variant of / bow string / string of musical instrument / watch spring / chord (straight line joining two points on a curve) / hypotenuse
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  *襁* | 襁* | *襁
string of copper coins / variant of


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