Meaning
sānxiánsan1 xian2
- 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
Words sharing a character
- 三角 sānjiǎo triangle
- 再三 zàisān over and over again
- 三明治 sānmíngzhì sandwich (loanword)
- 三维 sānwéi three-dimensional
- 接二连三 jiēèrliánsān one after another (idiom)
- 三番五次 sānfānwǔcì over and over again (idiom)
- 举一反三 jǔyīfǎnsān to raise one and infer three
- 丢三落四 diūsānlàsì forgetful
- 朝三暮四 zhāosānmùsì lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon
- 扣人心弦 kòurénxīnxián to excite