Memory phrase for the character: 弦

弦

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Meaning chord, string (of bow / musical instrument), hypotenuse

Pronunciation

xián

Explanation

Left: bow 弓, right: mysterious 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where an upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious)

Mnemonic
 
(As it withstood high forces, the bowstring was high-tech) The bow has a mysterious string.

Radicals

弓 bow
玄 mysteriousThis radical is easy to remember if you think of “magnet 磁” (cf. magnet, porcelain 磁 [cí]), where stones 石 are hanging at strings 糸 (simplified to 幺 and fixed with a bracket 艹) behave mysteriously.
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 Vocabulary

和弦 hé xián  chord (music)
和弦 hé xián  
正弦 zhèng xián  sine (of angle) (Math)
正弦 zhèng xián  

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