金 jīn 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] syn 唱片 chàng piàn gramophone record / LP / music CD / musical album / CL:張|张[zhang1] 石 shí rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] syn 演奏 yǎn zòu to perform on a musical instrument syn 心跳 xīn tiào heartbeat / pulse syn 脉搏 脈搏 mài bó pulse (both medical and figurative) syn 音乐剧 音樂劇 yīn yuè jù (theater, cinema) a musical 咪咪 mī mī 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) syn 乐器 樂器 yuè qì musical instrument / CL:件[jian4] syn 跳动 跳動 tiào dòng to throb / to pulse / to bounce / to jiggle / to jump about syn 脉冲 脈衝 mài chōng pulse (physics) 弹奏 彈奏 tán zòu to play (musical instrument, esp. string) syn 音调 音調 yīn diào pitch of voice (high or low) / pitch (of a musical note) / tone syn 大作 dà zuò your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly syn 乐谱 樂譜 yuè pǔ a musical score / sheet music 乐曲 樂曲 yuè qǔ musical composition syn 风琴 風琴 fēng qín pipe organ (musical instrument) 进行曲 進行曲 jìn xíng qǔ march (musical) 基调 基調 jī diào main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech) 音箱 yīn xiāng loudspeaker box / speaker (audio equipment) / resonating chamber of a musical instrument / sound box syn 四重奏 sì chóng zòu quartet (musical ensemble) 音阶 音階 yīn jiē musical scale 高亢 gāo kàng high-pitched and penetrating (musical instrument, voice etc) / high-spirited / fever-pitched (atmosphere) syn 谱子 譜子 pǔ zi musical score syn 乐音 樂音 yuè yīn musical note / tone syn 把脉 把脈 bǎ mài to feel the pulse / to take sb's pulse syn 三弦 sān xián 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 syn 调式 調式 diào shì (musical) mode 丝竹 絲竹 sī zhú traditional Chinese musical instruments / music 走马灯 走馬燈 zǒu mǎ dēng 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) 扬琴 揚琴 yáng qín yangqin / dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument) syn 原声 原聲 yuán shēng acoustic (musical instrument) 背景音乐 背景音樂 bèi jǐng yīn yuè background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting 脉动 脈動 mài dòng pulse / throbbing / pulsation 曲艺 曲藝 qǔ yì folk musical theater 三度 sān dù third (musical interval) 音乐之声 音樂之聲 yīn yuè zhī shēng The Sound of Music, Broadway musical (1959) and Academy Award-winning movie (1965) 昆曲 崑曲 kūn qǔ Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times syn 调音 調音 tiáo yīn to tune (a musical instrument) 气口 氣口 qì kǒu location on wrist over the radial artery where pulse is taken in TCM 重奏 chóng zòu musical ensemble of several instruments (e.g. duet 二重奏 or trio 三重奏) 八音 bā yīn 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 三重奏 sān chóng zòu trio (musical ensemble) 乐句 樂句 yuè jù musical phrase 杂剧 雜劇 zá jù a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy 诊脉 診脈 zhěn mài to feel the pulse (TCM) / Taiwan pr. [zhen3 mo4] syn 关汉卿 關漢卿 guān hàn qīng Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 号 號 hào ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people syn 追 duī to sculpt / to carve / musical instrument (old) syn 音 yīn sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character) syn 土 tǔ earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] syn 尺 chǐ a Chinese foot / one-third of a meter / a ruler / a tape-measure / one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine / CL:支[zhi1],把[ba3] syn 尺 chě one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3] syn 豆 dòu legume / pulse / bean / pea (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]) / (old) stemmed cup or bowl syn 弦 xián bow string / string of musical instrument / watchspring / chord (segment of curve) / hypotenuse / CL:根[gen1] syn 箫 簫 xiāo xiao, a Chinese musical instrument of ancient times, similar to panpipes syn 三角铁 三角鐵 sān jiǎo tiě triangle (musical instrument) / angle iron syn 籁 籟 lài a sound / a noise / musical pipe with 3 reeds syn 马致远 馬緻遠 mǎ zhì yuǎn 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] 萁 qí stalks of pulse syn 号脉 號脈 hào mài to feel sb's pulse syn 竖笛 豎笛 shù dí recorder (musical instrument) / (Tw) clarinet 总谱 總譜 zǒng pǔ musical score 铃鼓 鈴鼓 líng gǔ tambourine (musical instrument) / bell and drum 切脉 切脈 qiè mài to feel sb's pulse syn 荜 蓽 bì bean / pulse 八音盒 bā yīn hé musical box syn 脉象 脈象 mài xiàng condition or type of pulse (in Chinese medicine) 直笛 zhí dí (Tw) recorder (musical instrument) 镈 鎛 bó ancient musical intrument shaped as a bell / hoe / spade 絃 xián variant of 弦 / bow string / string of musical instrument / watch spring / chord (straight line joining two points on a curve) / hypotenuse 高山流水 gāo shān liú shuǐ fig. intimate and understanding friend / sublime musical composition 工尺谱 工尺譜 gōng chě pǔ traditional Chinese musical notation using Chinese characters to represent musical notes 按脉 按脈 àn mài to feel (take) the pulse syn 病脉 病脈 bìng mài abnormal pulse 电磁脉冲 電磁脈衝 diàn cí mài chōng electromagnetic pulse (EMP) 核电磁脉冲 核電磁脈衝 hé diàn cí mài chōng nuclear electro-magnetic pulse 热脉冲 熱脈衝 rè mài chōng thermal pulse 弱脉 弱脈 ruò mài weak pulse 切诊 切診 qiè zhěn (TCM) pulse feeling and palpitation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診|四诊[si4 zhen3] 寸口 cùn kǒu location on wrist over the radial artery where pulse is taken in TCM syn 寸口脉 寸口脈 cùn kǒu mài pulse taken at the wrist (TCM) 寸脉 寸脈 cùn mài pulse taken at the wrist (TCM) 摸脉 摸脈 mō mài to feel sb's pulse 涩脉 澀脈 sè mài sluggish pulse 结脉 結脈 jié mài knotted or slow pulse (TCM) 脉口 脈口 mài kǒu location on wrist over the radial artery where pulse is taken in TCM 脉息 脈息 mài xī pulse syn 脉诊 脈診 mài zhěn (TCM) diagnosis based on the patient's pulse / to make such a diagnosis 脉门 脈門 mài mén inner side of the wrist, where the pulse is felt 民脉研究报告 mín mò yán jiū bào gào Public Pulse Poll 脉冲中子管 pulse neutron tube 脉冲功率设备 脈沖功率設備 pulsed power device / pulse power equipment 选通脉冲 選通脈沖 gated pulse 声脉冲 聲脈沖 acoustic pulse 气泡效应 氣泡效應 bubble effect / bubble noise / bubble pulse 气泡噪声 氣泡噪聲 bubble effect / bubble noise / bubble pulse 先进单脉冲导引头 先進單脈沖導引頭 advanced mono-pulse seeker 脉血氧计 脈血氧計 pulse oximeter / pulsoxymeter 