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piano / CL: , 臺|台
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *琴* | 琴* | *琴
guqin 古琴 (a type of zither) / musical instrument in general
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *琴* | 琴* | *琴
variant of , guqin or zither
HSK 5
fiddle / violin
HSK 7-9
to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument
instrument of the violin family (violin, viola, cello or double bass) / CL:
harmonica
guqin or qin, a long zither with seven strings, plucked with the fingers
huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
pipe organ (musical instrument)
to talk nonsense / to behave like a fool
harp
xylophone
yangqin / dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument)
morin khuur (Mongolian bowed stringed instrument)
yueqin, a lute with oval or octagonal sound box
guqin or seven-stringed zither
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
to play the zither / classical variant of 彈琴|弹琴
lute (loanword)
cello (CL:)
variant of 揚琴|扬琴
metallophone
gayageum (Korean 12-stringed zither)
viola
double bass / contrabass
accordion
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago
celesta
melodica
grand piano
hand organ / hurdy-gurdy
see
Jew's harp
organ / pipe organ
Algonquin (North American people)
electronic keyboard (music)
double bass; contrabass
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), German mechanical engineer
prepared piano
Jew's harp
a harpsichord
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
banjo (loanword)
harmonium
same as yangqin 揚琴|扬琴, dulcimer
vibraphone (music)
lute (loanword)


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