琴 (qín)
musical instrument (piano, violin, etc.)
How 琴 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 玨 — N/A
- Traditional
- 琴
- Simplified
- 琴 (unchanged)
Components
- 玨 N/A
- 人 human
- 丶 dot
- ㇇ N/A
Common words using 琴
- 小提琴 xiǎotíqín
- fiddle; violin
- 彈琴 tánqín
- to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument
- 鋼琴 gāngqín
- piano; CL:架[jia4],臺|台[tai2]
- 口琴 kǒuqín
- harmonica
- 古琴 gǔqín
- guqin, a long zither with 5 or 7 strings, plucked with a plectrum; the ancestor of the long zither family, dating back to pre-classical times (playing it was an essential accomplishment of a Confucian gentleman)
- 大提琴 dàtíqín
- cello; violoncello; CL:把[ba3]
- 愛琴海 àiqínhǎi
- Aegean sea
- 手風琴 shǒufēngqín
- accordion
- 提琴 tíqín
- violin family; CL:把[ba3]
- 撫琴 fǔqín
- to play the zither; classical variant of 彈琴|弹琴[tan2 qin2]
- 琴弦 qínxián
- string (of a stringed instrument)
- 琴棋書畫 qínqíshūhuà
- Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar (zither, Go, calligraphy, painting)
琴 in a sentence
她從小就學習彈鋼琴。
Tā cóngxiǎo jiù xuéxí tán gāngqín.
“She has been learning to play the piano since she was little.”
How common is 琴?
琴 is the 1,699th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.8% of all running text.
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