A bound character: it occurs only in 琵琶 (pipa lute). Bai Juyi's poem 'Song of the Pipa' made the image of a woman half-hiding her face behind the 琵琶 one of the most quoted lines in Chinese poetry.
Components
semantic
玨jué
paired jade (doubled 王)
Top doubled jade element. In string-instrument characters this paired graphic represents the strings or tuning pegs of the lute, a graphic marker shared with 琴 and 瑟.
