Kanji1 / 11
絃 kanji
string, cord, samisen music
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Jinmeiyō (names)
On readings
ゲン
Kun readings
いと
Words with 絃
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —絃string (of a shamisen, etc.); stringed instrument
- —絃声sound of the strings
- —絃妓geisha; woman who entertains (e.g. by playing the shamisen) for her living
- —五絃琴five-stringed instrument; pentachord
- —管絃wind and string instruments; music
- —絃楽music for strings; string music
- —絃線catgut
- —五絃five strings; five-stringed instrument
- —三絃shamisen; samisen; sanxian (Chinese lute); the three string instruments used in gagaku (biwa, wagon and sou); three strings; three-stringed instrument
- —絃歌singing and (string) music
- —四絃four strings; four-stringed instrument; biwa
- —一絃琴single-stringed Japanese zither
- —管絃楽orchestral music
- —絃楽器string instrument; stringed instrument
- —二絃琴two-stringed koto
- —七絃琴qin (7-stringed Chinese zither); guqin; seven-stringed koto