琴
qín HSK5

Chinese lute or guitar

琴 qín
variant 琹
stringed instrument noun
(bound form) a general name for musical instruments, especially stringed ones like the 钢琴 gāng​qín, 提琴 tí​qín, or 胡琴 hú​qín; also used for certain keyboard and reed instruments

我儿子为什么没有在练琴？

wǒ ér​zi wèi​shén​me méi​yǒu zài liàn qín?

Why isn't my son practicing the piano?

guqin
The 古琴 gǔ​qín, a traditional Chinese seven-stringed zither; also called a 七弦琴 qī​xián​qín.
surname
a Chinese surname
to play an instrument
(literary) to play a musical instrument (such as the zither)

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Synonym

Has old variant

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
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)