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bow string / string of musical instrument / watchspring / chord (segment of curve) / hypotenuse / CL:
HSK 7-9
to excite / to thrill / exciting / thrilling / cliff-hanging
HSK 7-9
chord (music)
number of strings (of an instrument)
tonic triad / triad of the home key
lit. string and wind instruments (idiom) / fig. traditional Chinese ensemble music
orchestra
string music
superstring (physics)
heartstrings
hyperbolic cosine or cosh (math.)
(math.) cosine
string instrument
(music) triad; three-note chord
third quarter moon, aka last quarter moon
widowed / lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟 qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony
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
string theory (physics)
change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction / to dance to a different tune
string (of a stringed instrument)
string orchestra
orchestral music
half-moon / the 7th and 8th and 22nd and 23rd of the lunar month
overtone (music) / (fig.) connotation / implied meaning
to tighten the strings (of a musical instrument)
last quarter, aka third quarter (phase of the moon)
bowstring
pipa strings, made from sinews of large crane or swan 鵾雞|鹍鸡
guqin or seven-stringed zither
to sing to a string accompaniment / education (a reference to teaching the people Confucian values by means of song in ancient times)
chord angle (i.e. angle a chord of a curve makes to the tangent)
tuning (stringed instrument) / (fig.) to make up one's mind
sine wave / simple harmonic vibration
law of sines
(math.) sine
minor triad la-do-mi
Jew's harp
seventh (musical cord)
string theory (in theoretical physics)
hyperbolic sine or sinh (math.)
G-string
to wind up a watch, clockwork toy etc / to tighten the string of a bow, violin etc / first quarter (phase of the moon)
first quarter moon
(music) arpeggio
augmented triad (musical chord)
major triad do-mi-so
(wing) aspect ratio (aerodynamics)
Changde sixian, theatrical folk music style with singing in Changde dialect accompanied by traditional string instruments
bowstring
a narrow slit window / a lunette
to put strings on the zither, then play it (line from a Ming dynasty text by 劉伯溫|刘伯温) / (fig.) to play music
string instrument
plucked string or stringed instrument / plucked instrument
hammered string type (of musical instrument)
hammered string musical instrument
sinusoidal (shaped like a sine wave)
orchestra
(literary) (of a widower) to remarry
hyperbolic sine or sinh (math.)


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