yueqin
A small short-necked Chinese lute-like stringed instrument with a round, hollow wooden…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.
Meaning
1 sensesA 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.
Origin
From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 月琴 (yuèqín, literally “moon(-shaped) stringed insFrom the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 月琴 (yuèqín, literally “moon(-shaped) stringed instrument; moon guitar”).
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Forms
plural: yueqin / yueqinsSynonyms
4 synonymsmoon guitarmoon zithermoon lute
Japanese contexts:gekkin
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular