琴瑟
qín sè
Pinyin
Definition
琴瑟
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- qin and se, two string instruments that play in perfect harmony
- marital harmony
Character Decomposition
Idioms (4)
一琴一鹤
- 1 carrying very little luggage (idiom)
- 2 honest and incorruptible (government officials)
人琴俱亡
- 1 person and lute have both vanished (idiom)
- 2 death of a close friend
对牛弹琴
- 1 lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom)
- 2 fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience
- 3 to cast pearls before swine
- 4 caviar to the general
- 5 to preach to deaf ears
- 6 to talk over sb's head
琴剑飘零
- 1 floating between zither and sword (idiom); fig. wandering aimlessly with no tenured position