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げん
Meanings
Noun
1. bowstring
2. string (of a shamisen, etc.); stringed instrument
3. chord
4. hypotenuse
Alt. forms
弦げん
93%
げん
6%
Pitch accent
げ
ん
Used in: 183
Used in vocabulary (10 in total)
first quarter moon; waxing half-moon
sine
cosine
last quarter moon; third quarter moon; waning half-moon
half-moon
tuning (a stringed instrument)
string theory
guitar string
chord member
wind, string and percussion instruments
Examples (4 in total)
You pluck a guitar string to make a sound.
This guitar is missing a string.
I lightly plucked the string to check the sound.
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