琴 (qín): meaning and stroke order
琴 (qín) means guqin 古琴 (a type of zither), musical instrument in general, variant of 琴, guqin or zither.
琴
- Simplified
- 琴
- Traditional
- 琴, 琹
- Pinyin
- qín
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Stroke order of 琴
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
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Meaning of 琴
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qín
- guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] (a type of zither)
- musical instrument in general
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qín
Traditional 琹
- variant of 琴[qin2], guqin or zither
Radical and structure
- 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.
Words with 琴
- 钢琴 gāng qín piano; CL:架[jia4],臺|台[tai2]
- 小提琴 xiǎo tí qín fiddle; violin
- 对牛弹琴 duì niú tán qín lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom); fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience
琴 in our stories
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他推开门，看见弹琴的是学校的清洁工王阿姨。
tā tuīkāi mén kànjiàn tán qín de shì xuéxiào de qīngjiégōng Wáng āyí
He pushed the door open and saw that the player was Auntie Wang, the school cleaner.
From the story The piano at midnight HSK 4
Stories using 琴
- The piano at midnight HSK 4
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).