索爾仁尼琴

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago

to search / to demand / to ask / to exact / large rope / isolated

Thor (Norse god of thunder)

thus / so / like that / you / thou

humane / kernel

Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)

guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] (a type of zither) / musical instrument in general

variant of 琴[qin2], guqin or zither