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琴 (kam4) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

琴 (kam4, qín) — (music instrument) Piano; guqin or zither, cf 古琴gǔqín [古琴]; musical instrument in general; a surname; (day; night) before

Classifier

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Usage

Level

beyond HSK

Related words

• 琴日 (kam4 jat6) — (noun; adverb) yesterday
• 琴晚 (kam4 maan5) — (noun; adverb) last night
• 琴晚黑 (kam4 maan5 hak1) — (noun) last night
• 琴聲 (kam4 sing1) — the sound of the piano
• 琴劍飄零 (kam4 gim3 piu1 ling4) — floating between zither and sword (idiom); fig. wandering aimlessly with no ten…
• 琴師 (kam4 si1) — player of a stringed instrument

Chengyu with this character

• 對牛彈琴 — To offer refined or technical talk to listeners who cannot follow it. The fault may sit with the speaker's choice of audience, not the listeners — match the message to the hearer.

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