Memory phrase for the Kanji: 琶


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Meaning pipa lute, 琵琶, chin. guitar

Pronunciation

Explanation

Top: Two pegs for tensioning the strings of a string instrument, bottom: hope (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
to hope, long forActually a slumped person 把 is shown. But the explanations use it as "doorhandle". This understanding is based on the character: 把 (bǎ, bà), which is in combination of a hand and means: doorknob.
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 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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