gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
oboe-like musical instrument used in folk music of Gansu, Qinghai etc / (onom.) meow / kitty kitty! / Mimi (Western name) / tits (i.e. slang for breasts)
lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节[Yuan2 xiao1 jie2] / (fig.) revolving door / musical chairs (metaphor for people being shuffled around into different jobs)
ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music
sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra
Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧[za2 ju4] tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家[Yuan2 qu3 Si4 Da4 jia1]
ordinary / commonplace / mundane / temporal / of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels) / every / all / whatever / altogether / gist / outline / note of Chinese musical scale
bow string / string of musical instrument / watchspring / chord (segment of curve) / hypotenuse / CL:根[gen1] / watch spring / chord (straight line joining two points on a curve) / variant of 弦
(onom.) clamorous noise made by numerous people talking or singing, or by musical instruments, or birds twittering / Taiwan pr. [zha2] / used in 嘲哳[zhao1zha1] and 啁哳[zhao1zha1]
to shout / to call / to order / to ask / to be called / by (indicates agent in the passive mood) / ancient musical instrument similar to ocarina / old variant of 叫[jiao4]
to pile up / (bound form) repeated / to fold / classifier: stack, pile (of thin objects) / classifier for repeated sections in a musical composition / variant of 疊|叠[die2], to fold / to fold over in layers / to furl / to layer / to pile up / to repeat / to duplicate
to pile up / (bound form) repeated / to fold / classifier: stack, pile (of thin objects) / classifier for repeated sections in a musical composition / Japanese variant of 疊|叠[die2] / Japanese tatami matting
to pile up / (bound form) repeated / to fold / classifier: stack, pile (of thin objects) / classifier for repeated sections in a musical composition / variant of 疊|叠[die2], to fold / to fold over in layers / to furl / to layer / to pile up / to repeat / to duplicate
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