Memory phrase for the character: 琴

琴

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Meaning musical instrument with strings in general

Pronunciation

qín

Explanation

Top: Two pegs 王 for tensioning the strings of a string instrument, bottom: now 今 (Here: image of the body of the instrument)

Mnemonic
 
Tensionable strings stand now for string instruments.

Radicals

two kingsstands for string-instruments
今 now
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 Vocabulary

钢琴 gāng qín  piano
伦琴 lún qín  Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen or Roentgen (1845-1923)
风琴 fēng qín  pipe organ (musical instrument)
风琴 fēng qín  

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