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- bow string
- string of musical instrument
- watchspring
- chord (segment of curve)
- hypotenuse
- CL:根[gen1]
- sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra
- to wind up a watch, clockwork toy etc
- to tighten the string of a bow, violin etc
- first quarter (phase of the moon)
Trad. 鵾弦
- pipa strings, made from sinews of large crane or swan 鵾雞|鹍鸡[kun1 ji1]
- to sing to a string accompaniment
- education (a reference to teaching the people Confucian values by means of song in ancient times)
Trad. 斷弦
- widowed
- lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟[qin2 se4] qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony
- chord angle (i.e. angle a chord of a curve makes to the tangent)
Trad. 常德絲弦
- Changde sixian, theatrical folk music style with singing in Changde dialect accompanied by traditional string instruments
- to excite
- to thrill
- exciting
- thrilling
- cliff-hanging
Trad. 絲竹管弦
- lit. string and wind instruments (idiom)
- fig. traditional Chinese ensemble music
Trad. 雙曲餘弦
- hyperbolic cosine or cosh (math.)
Trad. 改弦易轍
- change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction
- to dance to a different tune
- overtone (music)
- (fig.) connotation
- implied meaning
Trad. 撥弦樂器
- plucked string or stringed instrument
- plucked instrument
- to put strings on the zither, then play it (line from a Ming dynasty text by 劉伯溫|刘伯温[Liu2 Bo2 wen1])
- (fig.) to play music
Trad. 雙曲線正弦
- hyperbolic sine or sinh (math.)
Trad. 擊弦類樂器
- hammered string musical instrument