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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)
tonic triad / triad of the home key
superstring (physics)
heartstrings
hyperbolic cosine or cosh (math.)
(math.) cosine
(music) triad; three-note chord
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
(math.) sine
string (of a stringed instrument)
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
tuning (stringed instrument) / (fig.) to make up one's mind
minor triad la-do-mi
Jew's harp
seventh (musical cord)
hyperbolic sine or sinh (math.)
to wind up a watch, clockwork toy etc / to tighten the string of a bow, violin etc / first quarter (phase of the moon)
(music) arpeggio
augmented triad (musical chord)
major triad do-mi-so
Changde sixian, theatrical folk music style with singing in Changde dialect accompanied by traditional string instruments
(literary) (of a widower) to remarry
hyperbolic sine or sinh (math.)


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