tí qín
instrument of the violin family (violin, viola, cello or double bass)
CL:把[ba3]
qín
guqin or zither, cf 古琴[gu3 qin2]
musical instrument in general
diàn zǐ qín
electronic keyboard (music)
gǔ qín
guqin, a long zither with 5 or 7 strings, plucked with a plectrum
the ancestor of the long zither family, dating back to pre-classical times (playing it was an essential accomplishment of a Confucian gentleman)
fēng qín
pipe organ (musical instrument)
gāng qín
piano
CL:架[jia4],臺|台[tai2]
dà tí qín
cello
violoncello
CL:把[ba3]
yuè qín
yueqin, a lute with oval or octagonal sound box
tán qín
to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument
qín qí shū huà
the four arts (zither, Go, calligraphy, painting)
the accomplishments of a well-educated person
qín xián
string (of a stringed instrument)
fǔ qín
to play the zither
classical variant of 彈琴|弹琴[tan2 qin2]
Ài qín
Aegean (sea between Greece and Turkey)
yáng qín
yangqin
dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument)
qín sè
qin and se, two string instruments that play in perfect harmony
marital harmony
hú qin
huqin
family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
mǎ tóu qín
morin khuur (Mongolian bowed stringed instrument)
liǔ qín
liuqin lute, smaller soprano version of the pipa 琵琶, with holes in the soundbox, and range equivalent to that of a violin
qín shī
player of a stringed instrument
duì niú tán qín
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom)
fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience
to cast pearls before swine
caviar to the general
to preach to deaf ears
to talk over sb's head
luàn tán qín
to talk nonsense
to behave like a fool
qín shū
traditional art form, consisting of sung story telling with musical accompaniment
qī xián qín
guqin or seven-stringed zither
qín sè hé míng
in perfect harmony
in sync
lit. qin and se sing in harmony
Suǒ ěr rén ní qín
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago
lún qín
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen or Roentgen (1845-1923)
qín shǒu
player of a stringed instrument
yáng qín
variant of 揚琴|扬琴[yang2 qin2]
fén qín zhǔ hè
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes
fig. to waste valuable resources
to destroy wantonly beautiful things
jiā yē qín
gayageum
Korean 12-stringed zither
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