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- Japanese · borrowed from蛇味線
- English todayjamisen
Borrowed from Japanese 蛇味線 (jamisen).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
jamisen
Today it means: An archaic stringed instrument of Japanese origin, traditionally made from snakeskin and characteristic of the Ryukyu islands; it is the ancestor of the shamisen. Full definition →
Japanese 蛇味線