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huqin

hu·qin

Today it means: Any of a family of vertical bowed lutes used in Chinese music. Full definition →

Mandarin 胡琴

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Mandarin · borrowed from胡琴
English todayhuqin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 胡琴 (húqín).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.