Etymology

daruan

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Today it means: A bass lute-like four-stringed chordophone of the ruan family of Chinese traditional instruments. Full definition →

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The story

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 大阮 (dàruǎn).

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