三弦

三弦 in English

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

Character breakdown

三 sān three
弦 xián bow string

Stroke order

Le caractère 三 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 三

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

三

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

弦

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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