Kanji1 / 8
弦 kanji
bowstring, chord, hypotenuse
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ゲン
Kun readings
つる
Words with 弦
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —弦楽Popularmusic for strings; string music
- —管弦楽Popularorchestral music
- —弦楽器Popularstring instrument; stringed instrument
- —管弦楽団Popularorchestra
- —弦bowstring; string (of a shamisen, etc.); stringed instrument; chord; hypotenuse
- —下弦last quarter moon; third quarter moon; waning half-moon
- —管弦wind and string instruments; music
- —弦月half-moon
- —弦線catgut
- —五弦five strings; five-stringed instrument
- —上弦first quarter moon; waxing half-moon
- —正弦sine
- —調弦tuning (a stringed instrument)
- —余弦cosine
- —三弦shamisen; samisen; sanxian (Chinese lute); the three string instruments used in gagaku (biwa, wagon and sou); three strings; three-stringed instrument
- —弦歌singing and (string) music
- —弦材chord member
- —移弦string-crossing (violin, cello, etc.)
- —四弦four strings; four-stringed instrument; biwa
- —一弦琴single-stringed Japanese zither