Memory phrase for the character: 琶

琶

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Meaning

pipa lute, 琵琶, chin. guitar

Pronunciation

pá

Explanation

 Top: Two pegs 王 for tensioning the strings of a string instrument, bottom: hope 巴 (Here: image of the sound box of the lute)

Mnemonic
 
The string instrument with a sound box is: the lute.

Radicals

two kingsstands for string-instruments
巴 to hope, long forActually a slumped person 巴 is shown. But the explanations use it as "doorknob". This free interpretatin is based on the character: 把 (bǎ, bà), which is in combination of a hand 扌 and means: doorknob.




 Vocabulary

吏胥 lì xū  
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
洋琵琶 yáng pí pá  

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