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三味線 (しゃみせん): three-stringed Japanese guitar — Japanese vocabulary

三味線 is read しゃみせん and means "three-stringed Japanese guitar". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

三味線

Reading
しゃみせん · shamisen
Translation
three-stringed Japanese guitar
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
しゃみせんが

Example

彼女は三味線による新しいジャズの演奏法を始めた。

かのじょはしゃみせんによるあたらしいジャズのえんそうほうをはじめた。

She originated a new way of playing jazz on the shamisen.

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