钢琴 (鋼琴)
gāng qín
Pinyin

Definition

钢琴 (鋼琴)
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gāng qín
  1. piano
  2. CL:架[jià],臺|台[tái]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

小提琴
xiǎo tí qín
  1. 1 fiddle
  2. 2 violin
弹琴
tán qín
  1. 1 to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument
琴
qín
  1. 1 guqin 古琴[gǔ qín] (a type of zither)
  2. 2 musical instrument in general
钢琴
gāng qín
  1. 1 piano
  2. 2 classifier: 架 jià
  3. 3 classifier: 台 tái
口琴
kǒu qín
  1. 1 harmonica

Idioms (4)

一琴一鹤
yī qín yī hè
  1. 1 carrying very little luggage (idiom)
  2. 2 honest and incorruptible (government officials)
人琴俱亡
rén qín jù wàng
  1. 1 person and lute have both vanished (idiom)
  2. 2 death of a close friend
对牛弹琴
duì niú tán qín
  1. 1 lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience
  3. 3 to cast pearls before swine
  4. 4 caviar to the general
  5. 5 to preach to deaf ears
  6. 6 to talk over sb's head
琴剑飘零
qín jiàn piāo líng
  1. 1 floating between zither and sword (idiom); fig. wandering aimlessly with no tenured position

Sample Sentences

小学时候我们班就有三类人：“仙人”就是那种看各种高端怪书的奇葩（比如卡尔维诺的《宇宙奇趣全集》）；“完人”这种人会跳舞会唱歌会主持节目会各种乐器，还奥数好英语好钢琴八级；还有一种人没啥当，只好当“井货”（横竖都是二）。
xiǎoxué shíhou wǒmen bān jiù yǒu sān lèi rén ：“xiānrén ”jiùshì nàzhǒng kàn gèzhǒng gāoduān guài shū de qípā （bǐrú kǎ ěr wéi nuò de 《yǔzhòu qíqù quánjí 》）；“wánrén ”zhèzhǒng rén huì tiàowǔ huì chànggē huì zhǔchí jiémù huì gèzhǒng yuèqì ，hái ÀoShù hǎo Yīngyǔ hǎo gāngqín bā jí ；háiyǒu yīzhǒng rén méi shá dāng ，zhǐhǎo dāng “jǐng huò ”（héngshu dōu shì èr ）。
There were three kinds of people in my elementary school: the Merlin - nerds who read all kinds of wired high-end books (like Calvino’s Trolltech Universe Collection); the Paragon - the kids who could sing, dance, host games, play instruments, were good at all subjects, and could play piano like a professional; what was left were those kids who couldn’t be either, so they could only be “lol"s (It is lol either way).
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我会弹钢琴。
wǒ huì tán gāngqín 。
I can play piano. (learnt skill)
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二胡跟钢琴的声音很合。
èrhú gēn gāngqín de shēngyīn hěn hé 。
The sound of piano and erhu really match.
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你的钢琴弹得真不错，跟谁学的？
nǐ de gāngqín tán de zhēn bùcuò ，gēn shéi xué de ？
You're good at playing the piano, who did you learn from?
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跟我阿姨学的，她是钢琴老师。
gēn wǒ āyí xué de ，tā shì gāngqín lǎoshī 。
My auntie taught me, she's a piano teacher.
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钢琴，你们家小毛不是也上才艺课吗？
gāngqín ，nǐmen jiā xiǎomáo bùshì yě shàng cáiyìkè ma ？
Piano, doesn't your daughter Xiaomao take an enrichment course too?
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演奏钢琴
yǎnzòu gāngqín
to play the piano (at a performance level)
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钢琴班，舞蹈班，书法班
gāngqín bān ，wǔdǎo bān ，shūfǎ bān
piano class, dance class, calligraphy class
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我也很喜欢。你会弹钢琴吗？
wǒ yě hěn xǐhuan 。nǐ huì tán gāngqín ma ？
I like it too. Can you play the piano?
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弹钢琴
tán gāngqín
to play piano
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