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The character 弦 is a phono-semantic compound, with the radical 弓 on the left linking it to archery equipment and stringed weapons. The right component, 玄, supplies the phonetic value and evokes the image of a thin, dark thread. Its original meaning referred specifically to the taut bowstring used in archery. This sense later extended to the strings of musical instruments, and from there to terms related to musical performance. In mathematics and astronomy, the meaning broadened further to denote the chord of a circle or the hypotenuse of a right triangle, representing a conceptual shift from a physical string to a geometric line connecting two points on a curve.
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这把琴的弦很旧。
音乐课上我们学习弦乐。
吉他需要定期更换弦。
小提琴的弦通常由金属制成。
他精通各种弦乐器的演奏。
弦理论是物理学中的一个重要概念。
在几何学中，弦是圆上连接两点的线段。
现代弦乐四重奏通常由两把小提琴、一把中提琴和一把大提琴组成。