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Word and Radical Components of 琴弦

The Chinese word 琴弦 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
琴弦 qínxián 1. n. (music) string of a musical instrument

琴弦 ⇨ 琴 + 弦
Component Pinyin Meanings
琴 qín 1. (musical instrument) qin (“Chinese zithers”), referring to any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most famously the guqin
2. (musical instrument) collective name for certain musical instruments, usually of string or keyboard types, such as piano, organ, violin, cello, huqin, accordion, harmonica, etc.
3. (musical instrument, specifically) piano (attn, zh, just Hong Kong?)
4. (Cantonese) yesterday
弦 xián, xuán 1. string; bowstring
2. crescent
3. spring of a clock
4. (music) string on a musical instrument
5. (music) stringed instruments or music played by stringed instruments
6. (mathematics) chord
7. (geometry) hypotenuse
8. (figurative) wife

琴 ⇨ 玨 + 今
Component Pinyin Meanings
玨 jué 1. (archaic) two pieces of jade joined together
今 jīn 1. now; at present; current
     今天 - the current day; today
     從今以後 - from now onwards.
     Synonyms: 現在
2. modern times
     古往今來 - from ancient to modern times.
     Synonyms: 現代
     Antonyms: 古
3. this
     今 夏 - this summer
     今次 - this time
     Synonyms: 此, 這
4. (literary) thus; promptly
     Synonyms: 即, 立刻
5. (literary) if
     Synonyms: 若, 假如
6. (Min Nan, Puxian Min) now
7. (Min Nan) then; in that case

弦 ⇨ 弓 + 玄
Component Pinyin Meanings
弓 gōng 1. bow (weapon)
2. bow (of a stringed instrument, or a cotton bow, or catapult)
3. curved; arched
4. to arch; to bend
5. (Jiexi Hakka) rainbow
6. (obsolete) (synonym of zh, 步) (a traditional Chinese unit of length and area)
     Gong
玄 xuán 1. deep; profound; mysterious
2. black; reddish black
3. sky

玨 ⇨ 玉
Component Pinyin Meanings
玉 yù 1. jade (originally nephrite, now also including jadeite)
     一 塊 玉juk6-2 - a piece of jade
     玉佩 - jade pendant -
     玉石俱焚 - the good and the bad perish together, lit=jade and stone incinerated together -
2. pure; beautiful
     玉容 - beautiful face (of a woman) -
     亭亭玉立 - slender and graceful (of a woman) -
     錦衣玉食 - to live a luxurious life -
3. (honorific) your
     玉照 - your photograph -
4. (Cantonese, borrowing) Alternative form of 肉
5.    Used in 玉冰燒
     Yu
6. Variant of 鬱