| | ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people | HSK 1 |
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| | to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels | HSK 2 |
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| | to blow / to play a wind instrument / to blast / to puff / to boast / to brag / to end in failure / to fall through | HSK 2 |
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| | gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | HSK 3 |
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| | tool / instrument / utensil / means (to achieve a goal etc) | HSK 3 |
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| | earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | HSK 3 |
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| | ruler (measuring instrument) / CL: 把 | HSK 4 |
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| | guqin 古琴 (a type of zither) / musical instrument in general | HSK 5 |
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| | entrance door / to enter a door / to learn the basics of a subject; introduction (to a subject); (attributive) entry-level | HSK 5 |
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| | 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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| | to perform on a musical instrument | HSK 6 |
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| | instrument; apparatus / CL: 臺｜台 | HSK 6 |
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| | apparatus / instrument / equipment / weapon | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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 |
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| | musical instrument / CL: 件 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | scale (instrument for weighing) / to weigh / (loanword) pound (unit of weight, about 454 grams) / (printing) point (unit used to measure the size of type) / (Tw) (printing) pound; ream weight (used to describe paper thickness) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | appearance / bearing / meter (i.e. measuring instrument) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | horn (automobile etc) / loudspeaker / brass wind instrument / trumpet / suona 鎖吶｜锁呐 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | tiny / minute / fine / subtle / sensitive (instruments) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bow string / string of musical instrument / watchspring / chord (segment of curve) / hypotenuse / CL: 根 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | debt instrument | |
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| | to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument | |
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| | rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | |
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| | player of a stringed instrument | |
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| | instrument of the violin family (violin, viola, cello or double bass) / CL: 把 | |
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| | loudspeaker box / speaker (audio equipment) / resonating chamber of a musical instrument / sound box | |
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| | to sculpt / to carve / musical instrument (old) | |
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| | circular finger movement (in playing plucked instrument) / strumming | |
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| | Olympus, Japanese manufacturer of cameras and optical instruments | |
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| | mokugyo / wooden fish (percussion instrument) | |
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| | copper coin / copper plate / copper clappers (a kind of percussion instrument) / (Tw) coin | |
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| | high-pitched and penetrating (musical instrument, voice etc) / high-spirited / fever-pitched (atmosphere) | |
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| | leg vise (torture instrument) | |
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| | string (of a stringed instrument) | |
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| | brass instrument (music) | |
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| | to look squarely at / to look straight ahead / (instrumentation) heads-up (display) | |
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| | sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes | |
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| | instrumental music | |
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| | part (in multipart instrumental or choral music), such as the soprano part or bass part | |
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| | to sing and play (plucked string instrument) | |
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| | to play (wind instruments) | |
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| | recorder (musical instrument) / (Tw) clarinet | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | to tune (a musical instrument) | |
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| | vibrato (of stringed instrument) / trill (in phonetics) | |
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| | folk music, esp. for traditional instruments | |
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| | life is but a dream (idiom) | |
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| | set of bells (old Chinese music instrument) | |
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| | instrumental performer | |
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| | negotiable instrument (draft, note etc) / voucher; receipt | |
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| | to play (musical instrument, esp. string) | |
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| | musical ensemble of several instruments (e.g. duet 二重奏 or trio 三重奏) | |
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| | qin and se, two string instruments that play in perfect harmony / marital harmony | |
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| | reed-pipe wind instrument | |
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| | tuning (stringed instrument) / (fig.) to make up one's mind | |
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| | intelligence gatherer / spy / detective / scout / sound (medical instrument) / long and narrow probing and sampling utensil | |
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| | pipe organ (musical instrument) | |
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| | strategic pass / barrier or mark (i.e. a level considered impressive, usually a round figure such as 10,000) / instrument of torture used to break limbs | |
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| | Dorgon (1612-1651), fourteenth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤｜努尔哈赤, successful general, instrumental in Manchu conquest of China, ruled China as regent 1644-1650 for his nephew Emperor Shunzhi 順治帝｜顺治帝 | |
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| | oboe-like musical instrument used in folk music of Gansu, Qinghai etc / (onom.) meow / kitty kitty! / Mimi (Western name) / tits (i.e. slang for breasts) | |
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| | pluck (stringed instrument) | |
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| | lit. to have a tongue like the reed of a wind instrument (idiom) / fig. to have a glib tongue | |
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| | punishment equipment / torture instrument | |
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| | ocarina / wind instrument consisting of an egg-shaped chamber with holes | |
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| | yangqin / dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument) | |
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| | morin khuur (Mongolian bowed stringed instrument) | |
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| | free reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙, used in ancient China | |
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| | a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard | |
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| | earwax / cerumen | |
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| | ancient musical intrument shaped as a bell / hoe / spade | |
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| | bawu, a free reed wind instrument shaped like a flute and played transversally, associated particularly with minority cultures of Yunnan | |
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| | tambourine (musical instrument) / bell and drum | |
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| | instrument for straightening bows | |
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| | to blow a brass instrument | |
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| | widowed / lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟 qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony | |
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| | percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the back, across which one runs a drumstick | |
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| | sharp instrument for digging | |
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| | lit. stocks and knives / fig. any punishment equipment / torture instrument | |
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| | percussion instrument, a tapering wooden box struck on the inside with a wooden stick | |
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| | sihu (or "khuurchir" in Mongolian), a bowed instrument with four strings, primarily associated with Mongolian and Chinese culture | |
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| | blunt (instrument) / stupid / thick-headed | |
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| | ancient porcelain wind-instrument | |
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| | (old) instrument to even out the grain in a measuring vessel / to proofread / to collate | |
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| | lit. (music instruments made of) metal, stone, string, and bamboo (idiom) / fig. traditional Chinese music instruments | |
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| | earwax; cerumen | |
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| | old variant of 叫 / ancient musical instrument similar to ocarina | |
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| | panicum frumentaceum | |
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| | acoustic (musical instrument) | |
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| | clappers (musical instrument used to mark the time, made from ivory or hardwood and painted red) | |
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| | instrumental music | |
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| | to read out loud / (computing) to read (data) / readout (of a scientific instrument) | |
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| | percussion instrument used by street peddlers, barbers etc to attract attention | |
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| | ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲｜丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music | |
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| | blunt instrument (used as a weapon) | |
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| | recorder (musical instrument) (Tw) | |
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| | variant of 弦 / bow string / string of musical instrument / watch spring / chord (straight line joining two points on a curve) / hypotenuse | |
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| | hard to play (of music for stringed instrument) | |
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| | old reed wind instrument / (possibly used erroneously for konghou 箜篌 harp or 笙簧 sheng) | |
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| | to beat time with a percussion instrument made of pottery | |
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| | ocarina (musical instrument) | |
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