げん
Meanings
Noun
1. bowstring
2. string (of a shamisen, etc.); stringed instrument
3. chord
4. hypotenuse
Kanji used
string (of an instrument)
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (19 in total)
1st quarter of moon; crescent moon
string instrument; stringed instrument
wind and string instruments; music
music for strings; string music
(moon's) last quarter
crescent moon
shamisen; samisen; sanxian (Chinese lute); three string instruments (in gagaku; biwa, wagon and sou); three-stringed instrument
qin (7-stringed Chinese zither); guqin; seven-stringed koto
single-stringed Japanese zither
guitar string
geisha; woman who entertains (e.g. by playing the shamisen) for her living
two-stringed koto
wind, string and percussion instruments
chord member
Examples (1 in total)
This guitar is missing a string.