The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from月琴
- English todayyueqin
From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 月琴 (yuèqín, literally “moon(-shaped) stringed instrument; moon guitar”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
yueqin
Today it means: A small short-necked Chinese lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone) with a round, hollow wooden body and four strings in pairs in its traditional form, now more often with three or four unpaired strings. Full definition →
Mandarin 月琴