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小提琴 (xiǎo tí qín): meaning and stroke order

小提琴 (xiǎo tí qín) means fiddle, violin.

小提琴

Simplified
小提琴
Traditional
小提琴 (same form)
Pinyin
xiǎo tí qín

Stroke order of 小提琴

小

  • xiǎo small; tiny
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

提

  • dī used in 提防[di1 fang5] and 提溜[di1 liu5]
  • tí to carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift
  • 12 strokes

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 小提琴

  1. xiǎo tí qín
    • fiddle
    • violin

Radicals of the characters

小
Radical 小 (Kangxi radical 42) · 3 strokes
提
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 12 strokes · 扌 on the left, 是 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.

小提琴 in our stories

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  • 原来她是一位小提琴老师，箱子里有她晚上演出要穿的衣服。

    yuánlái tā shì yí wèi xiǎotíqín lǎoshī xiāngzi lǐ yǒu tā wǎnshang yǎnchū yào chuān de yīfu

    She was a violin teacher, and her suitcase held the clothes she had to wear for a performance that evening.

    From the story The identical suitcase HSK 4

  • 这个故事被称为中国的“罗密欧与朱丽叶”，后来还被写成了著名的小提琴协奏曲“梁祝”，直到今天，还常常在音乐会上演奏。

    zhè gè gùshi bèi chēngwéi Zhōngguó de Luómì'ōu yǔ Zhūlìyè hòulái hái bèi xiě chéng le zhùmíng de xiǎotíqín xiézòuqǔ Liáng-Zhù zhídào jīntiān hái chángcháng zài yīnyuèhuì shàng yǎnzòu

    This story is called China's Romeo and Juliet; it was later made into the famous violin concerto The Butterfly Lovers, which is still often played in concerts today.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 小提琴

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).