琴

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Japanese 2.1 Noun 2.2 Kanji 2.2.1 Readings 2.2.2 Compounds 3 Korean 3.1 Hanja 4 Mandarin 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Derived terms 5 Vietnamese 5.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Jade pendants with the phonetic jin below

[edit] Han character

琴 (radical 96 玉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土人戈弓 (MGOIN), four-corner 1120₇)

1. guqin (Chinese seven-stringed zither, historical and original usage)
2. piano (modern usage, most commonly used meaning)
3. zither
4. string instrument (can apply to zithers or lutes)
5. musical instrument (for example, 手风琴 [accordion])

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 735, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21079
• Dae Jaweon: page 1147, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1119, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7434

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[edit] Japanese

Wikipedia

[edit] Noun

琴 (こと, koto)

1. Japanese zither/harp; koto.

[edit] Kanji

琴 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: きん (kin)
• Kun: こと (koto)

[edit] Compounds

• 琴線
• 琴柱
• 琴爪
• 琴曲
• 竪琴
• 大正琴
• 洋琴

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

琴 (hangeul 금, revised geum, McCune-Reischauer kŭm, Yale kum)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Noun

琴 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin qín)

1. zither
2. a stringed instrument

[edit] Derived terms

• 古琴
• 雷琴
• 琴瑟
• trad. 琴絃, simpl. 琴弦
• trad. 鋼琴, simpl. 钢琴
• 胡琴
• trad. 揚琴, simpl. 扬琴

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

琴 (cầm)