ch'in

"The lines composed by cousin Pao ch'in are indeed devised in a too pigheaded and fast-and-loose sort of way," she observed.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

[Emperor Wen] also said, ` At my tomb (shou-ling), do not establish a funerary chamber (ch'in), a hall (tien), or make a park and town [of tomb-keepers]. '

The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1944

He was so fond of music that he declared that he could imagine the sweet sounds of the ch'in, and often carried about a stringless instrument over which he moved his hands.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

The ch'in, or table-lute, is fully described in Note 114.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

Thus the ch'in measured 3.66 feet, because the year contains a maximum of 366 days; the number of strings was five, to agree with the five elements; the upper part was made round, to represent the firmament; the bottom was flat, to represent the ground; and the thirteen studs stood for the twelve moons and the intercalary moon.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

The sê, or psaltery, is made on the principle of the ch'in, and like that instrument has been made the subject of numerous allegorical comparisons.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

Its wood, which is white, easy to cut, and very light, is the only kind suitable for making that intimate instrument which quickly betrays the least emotion of the person playing upon it – the ch'in, or table-lute.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

The ch'in, or table-lute, lies on a table like a zither, and is played with the fingers.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

Besides adopting the reading of sin for ch'in from the Ch'ang, and modifying their arrangements of the text, Chu Hsi made other innovations.

The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 James Legge 1856

The greatest change which he introduced into the Great Learning, was to read sin [3] for ch'in [4], at the commencement, making the second object proposed in the treatise to be the renovation of the people, instead of loving them.

The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 James Legge 1856