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| 1. 管弦乐队 | |
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| 乐队 |
| 1. Simplified form of 樂隊 | |
| 管 |
| 1. (musical instrument) a cylindrical double-reed woodwind instrument made of bamboo or wood | |
| 2. (musical instrument, by extension) any wind instrument | |
| 3. (by extension) slender tubular hollow object; pipe; tube; duct; canal; valve; fistula | |
| 吸管 - straw | |
| 4. (literary) calligraphy brush; inkbrush | |
| 5. to administer; to manage; to control; to be in charge | |
| 管理 - to manage | |
| 6. to subject someone to discipline; to discipline | |
| 7. to concern oneself with; to interfere with | |
| 8. to be responsible for the provision of; to provide; to supply | |
| 9. to assure; to guarantee; to ensure; to keep | |
| 10. despite; regardless of; irrespective of | |
| 11. (colloquial) (used in the pattern 管 is followed by the entity that is being called a name) | |
| 臺灣人 管 花生 也 叫 土豆。 - Taiwanese people also call peanuts 土豆. | |
| 12. (dialectal, colloquial) (indicates the object of an action:) to | |
| 13. (Sichuan) to be worth | |
| ^管 ^寧 - Guan Ning | |
| 弦 |
| 1. string; bowstring | |
| 2. crescent | |
| 3. spring of a clock | |
| 4. (music) string on a musical instrument | |
| 5. (music) stringed instruments or music played by stringed instruments | |
| 6. (mathematics) chord | |
| 7. (geometry) hypotenuse | |
| 8. (figurative) wife | |
| 乐 |
| 1. Variant of 樂 | |
| 队 |
| 1. Simplified form of 隊 | |
