qin

nounattested in dialogue

United States//t͡ʃɪn//

Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.

noun

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Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.
... there was no longer anyone worth playing his qin for, so he broke his instrument and never played again. The guqin was also a means of expressing love.
He makes his qin students take calligraphy with him, and calligraphy and painting students play the qin.
Knowing that we play the qin, they told us that there was a qin in the teahouse, but only for decoration – no one there actually knew how to play it.

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 琴 (qín).

Forms

plural: qins

q · The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue…Q · The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue…Qi · A Chinese surname.

qin · Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.

Qin · An ancient feudal state of China that existed between 778 and…qing · A sounding stone, a Chinese musical instrument.Qing · Qing dynasty (1644–1912), the last imperial dynasty of China.

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