123456Keywordruanancient musical instrumentsurnameFrequency#3278Strokes6ReadingsruǎnMnemonic元 gives the sound.Stroke orderComposed of阝place元firstUsed in vocabulary阮ruǎnruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute阮元RuǎnYuánscholar-official in the Qing dynasty (1764-1849)阮崇武RuǎnChóngwǔRuan Chongwu (1933-), third governor of Hainan中阮zhōngruǎnzhongruan or alto lute, like pipa 琵琶 but bigger and lower range大阮dàruǎndaruan or bass lute, like pipa 琵琶 and zhongruan 中阮 but bigger and lower range