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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)
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:
accordion
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
to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument
to talk nonsense / to behave like a fool
melodica
(loanword) banjo
electronic keyboard (music)
yangqin / dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), German mechanical engineer
organ / pipe organ
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
celesta
a harpsichord
same as yangqin 揚琴|扬琴, dulcimer
harmonica
huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
double bass; contrabass
harp
yueqin, a lute with oval or octagonal sound box
(loanword) lute
harmonium
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago
Algonquin (North American people)
(loanword) lute
see
gayageum (Korean 12-stringed zither)
hand organ / hurdy-gurdy
Jew's harp
xylophone
metallophone
Jew's harp
pipe organ (musical instrument)
vibraphone (music)
variant of 揚琴|扬琴
to play the zither / classical variant of 彈琴|弹琴


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