琴
qín HSK5

Chinese lute or guitar

琴 qín frequency
musical instrument noun
a general term for various musical instruments, especially stringed or keyboard types

这种琴的音色非常特别。

zhè zhǒng qín de yīn​sè fēi​cháng tè​bié.

The timbre of this instrument is very special.

guqin noun
the guqin, a traditional Chinese seven-stringed zither

这张琴的音色古朴，是他请老师傅用老杉木精心制作的。

zhè zhāng qín de yīn​sè gǔ​pǔ, shì tā qǐng lǎo​shī​fu yòng lǎo shān​mù jīng​xīn zhì​zuò de.

The tone of this guqin is antique and simple; he had an old master craftsman carefully create it using aged fir wood.

琴 (琹) qín
zither verb
variant of 琴 qín, guqin or zither

他在书房里独自弹琴。

tā zài shū​fáng lǐ dú​zì tán qín.

He is playing the zither alone in the study.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,701st most common 53.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,515th most common 41.7 per million appears in 11% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
9.36 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
24.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+7434

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)