common
noun

Meaning of 琵琶

琵琶 means a pear-shaped, four-stringed plucked instrument played horizontally. Pronounced pí pá.

  • a pear-shaped, four-stringed plucked instrument played horizontally

Definitions & Examples

zài
yīn
yuè
xué
yuàn
zhǔ
xiū
 

She majors in pipa at the conservatory of music.

Zhè
shǒu
zhēn
hǎo
tīng
 

This pipa piece sounds really beautiful.

tán
jīng
shí
nián
le
 

He has been playing the pipa for ten years already.

shì
Zhōng
guó
chuán
tǒng
yuè
zhī
 
yǒu
liǎng
qiān
duō
nián
de
shǐ
 

The pipa is one of China's traditional instruments, with a history of more than two thousand years.

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