弦
xián HSK7

string

弦 xián
string noun
bow string or string of a musical instrument

他的小提琴断了一根弦。

tā de xiǎo​tí​qín duàn le yī gēn xián.

A string on his violin snapped.

hypotenuse noun
the longest side of a right-angled triangle

勾股定理中的“弦”指的就是直角三角形的斜边。

gōu gǔ dìng​lǐ zhōng de“ xián” zhǐ de jiù shì zhí​jiǎo sān​jiǎo​xíng de xié biān.

The 'xian' in the Pythagorean theorem refers to the hypotenuse of a right triangle.

chord noun
a straight line segment connecting two points on a curve

连接圆上两点的线段称为弦。

lián​jiē yuán shàng liǎng diǎn de xiàn​duàn chēng​wéi xián.

A line segment connecting two points on a circle is called a chord.

spring verb
the spring mechanism used to power a clock or watch

别忘了给闹钟上弦。

bié wàng le gěi nào​zhōng shàng xián.

Don't forget to wind the alarm clock.

Cross-References

Classifier

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,258th most common 26.4 per million
Movie subtitles
2,530th most common 8.20 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.04 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
9.54 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5F26

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