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語源

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

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃin/

名詞

qin (複数形 qins)

1. (music) Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.
   • 1989, Zhongguo fu li hui, Chung-kuo fu li hui, China Reconstructs

     ... 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.

   • 2006, Dana Standridge, Lessons in Essence: A Novel:

     He makes his qin students take calligraphy with him, and calligraphy and painting students play the qin.

   • 2016 December 30, “Oral history book explores true meaning of tradition by recounting the revival of qin”, in Shanghai Daily:

     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.

参考

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones