Memory phrase for the character: 琵

琵

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Meaning guitar-like instrument, see 琵琶, lute

Pronunciation

pí

Explanation

Top: Two pegs 王 for tensioning the strings of a string instrument, bottom: to compare 比 (here: 4 strokes for 4 strings)

Mnemonic
 
The string instrument with 4 strings is this lute.

Radicals

王 king
two kingsstands for string-instruments
比 compare
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 Vocabulary

蹊跷 qī qiāo  
琵琶 pí pa  pipa, Chinese lute, with 4 strings, a large pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard
洋琵琶 yáng pí pá  mandolin
琵鹭 pí lù  spoonbill (wading bird of the family Threskiornithidae)
琵鹭 pí lù  

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