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钢琴 (gāng qín): meaning and stroke order

钢琴 (gāng qín) means piano, CL:架台.

钢琴

Simplified
钢琴
Traditional
鋼琴
Pinyin
gāng qín

Stroke order of 钢琴

钢

  • gāng steel
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鋼

Stroke by stroke

琴

  • qín guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] (a type of zither); musical instrument in general
  • qín variant of 琴[qin2], guqin or zither
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 琹

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 钢琴

  1. gāng qín Traditional 鋼琴
    • piano
    • CL:架[jia4],臺|台[tai2]

Radicals of the characters

钢
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 钅 on the left, 冈 on the right
琴
Radical 玉 (Kangxi radical 96) · 12 strokes · 玨 on top, 今 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

钢琴 in our stories

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  • 白露准备了三个月，终于要在学校的音乐会上弹钢琴了。

    Bái Lù zhǔnbèi le sān gè yuè zhōngyú yào zài xuéxiào de yīnyuèhuì shàng tán gāngqín le

    After three months of preparation, Bai Lu was finally going to play the piano at the school concert.

    From the story That last piece HSK 3

  • 在陆远的大学里，一直有一个传说：半夜十二点，老音乐楼里的钢琴会自己响起来。

    zài Lù Yuǎn de dàxué lǐ yìzhí yǒu yí gè chuánshuō bànyè shí'èr diǎn lǎo yīnyuèlóu lǐ de gāngqín huì zìjǐ xiǎng qǐlai

    At Lu Yuan's university there had long been a legend: at midnight, the piano in the old music building played by itself.

    From the story The piano at midnight HSK 4

Stories using 钢琴

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).