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乐谱

yuèpǔ

musical score; sheet music

A person at a green piano reads a page of flowing curved lines
Memory picture

Characters in this word

乐 lè

Strokes
5
Radical
丿 — falling stroke
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

谱 pǔ

Strokes
14
Radical
讠 — words, speech
Made of
讠 words, speech 普 widespread, universal, general
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 这份手写乐谱保存了作曲家最后一次修改的痕迹,因而具有很高的研究价值。 Zhè fèn shǒuxiě yuèpǔ bǎocún le zuòqǔjiā zuìhòu yí cì xiūgǎi de hénjì, yīn'ér jùyǒu hěn gāo de yánjiū jiàzhí. This handwritten score preserves traces of the composer's final revisions and is therefore of great research value.
  • 钢琴上放着一本厚厚的乐谱。 Gāngqín shàng fàngzhe yì běn hòuhòu de yuèpǔ. A thick book of sheet music lies on the piano.
  • 演奏会前,他整整一周都在练习新乐谱。 Yǎnzòuhuì qián, tā zhěngzhěng yì zhōu dōu zài liànxí xīn yuèpǔ. Before the concert, he spent a whole week practicing from the new score.

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