Alternative form of 伽耶琴 (Kaya-kin, “gayageum”)

gayageum

koto: a Japanese zither derived from the Chinese guzheng / (colloquial) guzheng: a Chinese zither on which the koto was based

(historical) Gaya (ancient confederacy in Korea)

to flick and make something spring/jump / (of materials) to reject; to repel (some external substance) / (from the metaphor of beating beads of an abacus) to calculate

play (a stringed or keyboard musical instrument)

(slang) pistol; gun / tiddlywinks

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend