絃

string; cord; samisen music

11 strokes. Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names.

Readings

• ゲン (on reading): 絃 (げん) string (of a shamisen, etc.); 管絃楽 (かんげんがく) orchestral music
• いと (kun reading)

Components

• 糸
• 玄
• 亠 radical lid
• 小 radical small
• 幺 radical short thread
• 玄 radical dark; mysterious
• 糸 radical thread

Words using 絃

• 絃 (げん) string (of a shamisen, etc.)
• 管絃楽 (かんげんがく) orchestral music
• 絃声 (げんせい) sound of the strings
• 絃妓 (げんぎ) geisha
• 五絃琴 (ごげんきん) five-stringed instrument

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