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


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