横琴

横七竖八 héngqīshùbā HSK 7

in disorder / in a mess / scattered about / lying all over the place

横 héng HSK 7 #6,346

horizontal; across; transverse / unreasonable; perverse (pronounced hèng)

横看成岭侧成峰 héngkànchénglǐngcèchéngfēng

seen head-on it's a ridge, seen from the side a peak / different viewpoints yield different truths / opening of Su Shi's poem 'Inscribed on the Wall of West Forest Temple'

横眉冷对千夫指 héngméilěngduìqiānfūzhǐ

to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl / to stand defiantly against public condemnation / Lu Xun's emblem of principled resistance

钢琴 gāngqín HSK 5 #3,026

piano

琴 qín HSK 5 #5,576

guqin (ancient Chinese zither) / a general term for musical instruments (in compounds)

小提琴 xiǎotíqín HSK 7 #8,108

violin

飞来横祸 fēiláihènghuò

a disaster that flies in from nowhere (idiom) / a sudden, unexpected calamity / a bolt-from-the-blue misfortune

琴棋书画 qínqíshūhuà

the four arts of the Chinese scholar (qin, Go, calligraphy, painting) / a well-rounded classical education

苍苍横翠微 cāngcānghéngcuìwēi

a dark-green haze stretches across the mountain slopes / (fig.) the canonical image of distant, misty summer mountains / (lit.) dark-green, lying-across, green-haze-of-the-hillside