琶

Meaning

琶 refers specifically to a lute, a stringed musical instrument. It appears almost exclusively in the compound 琵琶 (biwa), the Japanese lute.

• 琵琶湖びわこ

  Lake Biwa; Biwako

• 琵琶びわ

  biwa (Japanese lute)

• 平家琵琶へいけびわ

  Heike biwa; Heike lute; biwa with 4 strings and 5 frets, esp. for accompanying the Heike Monogatari

• 楽琵琶がくびわ

  large 4-stringed biwa used in gagaku

• 琵琶の琴びわのこと

  biwa (4 or 5-stringed Oriental lute)

• 琵琶法師びわほうし

  lute priest; minstrel; blind travelling biwa player dressed like a Buddhist monk

• 琵琶湖大鯰びわこおおなまず

  Lake Biwa catfish (Silurus biwaensis)

• 琵琶牧々びわぼくぼく

  biwa-bokuboku; yōkai in the shape of a Buddhist priest with the head of a biwa

• 琵琶笛びやぼん

  Edo-period mouth harp (with a hairpin-like frame and a long straight tongue)

• 琵琶行びわこう

  biwa song

• 琵琶鰉びわひがい

  Biwa oily gudgeon (Sarcocheilichthys variegatus microoculus)

• 琵琶鱒びわます

  biwa trout (Oncorhynchus masou rhodurus); biwa salmon

• 薩摩琵琶さつまびわ

  Satsuma biwa; Satsuma lute

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