琹

Translingual

Etymology

Jade pendants (or sound of) over a wooden surface/structure

Han character

琹 (radical 96 玉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土木 (MGD))

1. Historical name and variant of the guqin (古琴), a Chinese zither

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 736, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21078
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1223, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7439

---

Cantonese

Hanzi

琹 (Yale kam4)

---

Japanese

Kanji

琹

Readings

• On: きん (kin)
• Kun: こと (koto)

---

Mandarin

Hanzi

琹 (pinyin qín (qin2), Wade-Giles ch'in²)

Last modified on 11 January 2011, at 11:24