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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *琴* | 琴* | *琴
guqin 古琴 (a type of zither) / musical instrument in general
HSK 5
piano / CL: , 臺|台
HSK 5
morin khuur (Mongolian bowed stringed instrument)
in perfect harmony / in sync / lit. qin and se sing in harmony
grand piano
fiddle / violin
HSK 7-9
guqin or seven-stringed zither
double bass / contrabass
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head
instrument of the violin family (violin, viola, cello or double bass) / CL:
violinist; fiddler
Lyra, constellation containing Vega 織女星|织女星
accordion
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *琴* | 琴* | *琴
variant of , guqin or zither
HSK 5
viola
cello (CL:)
guqin or qin, a long zither with seven strings, plucked with the fingers
qin and se, two string instruments that play in perfect harmony / marital harmony
to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument
to talk nonsense / to behave like a fool
string (of a stringed instrument)
melodica
(loanword) banjo
cellist
a piano key
electronic keyboard (music)
yangqin / dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), German mechanical engineer
pianist
player of a stringed instrument
Aegean Sea
traditional art form, consisting of sung story telling with musical accompaniment
organ / pipe organ
mallet / drumstick
out of tune / marital discord, cf qin and se 琴瑟, two string instruments as symbol of marital harmony
X-ray / Röntgen or Roentgen ray
prepared piano
same as yangqin 揚琴|扬琴, dulcimer
liuqin lute, smaller version of the pipa 琵琶, with holes in the soundbox, and range similar to that of a violin
Lyra (constellation)
celesta
a harpsichord
same as yangqin 揚琴|扬琴, dulcimer
(idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person
harmonica
huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
double bass; contrabass
harp
piano performance
bow (of a stringed instrument)
yueqin, a lute with oval or octagonal sound box
(loanword) lute
courtesy name of Lin Shu 林紓|林纾
lyrebird
harmonium
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago
person and lute have both vanished (idiom) / death of a close friend
(bird species of China) black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix)
(Tw) gin and tonic
Algonquin (North American people)
player of a stringed instrument
(loanword) lute
see
gayageum (Korean 12-stringed zither)
carrying very little luggage (idiom) / honest and incorruptible (government officials)
floating between zither and sword (idiom); fig. wandering aimlessly with no tenured position
(Tw) gin and tonic
hand organ / hurdy-gurdy
Jew's harp
pianist
xylophone
metallophone
Jew's harp
pipe organ (musical instrument)
vibraphone (music)
gin (Taiwan variant of 金酒)
variant of 揚琴|扬琴
Częstochowa (city in Poland)
to play the zither / classical variant of 彈琴|弹琴
erhua variant of 胡琴


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