Definitions
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- noun music A plucked, seven-string Chinese
musical instrument of thezither family, favoured byscholars and theliterati in ancient times. - noun Guqin Tai 《古琴臺》 (Guqin Terrace or Heptachord Terrace, etc), the name of a place in
Wuhan ,China .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Sometimes it sounded like a pipa”—a four-string Chinese lute—“and sometimes it sounded like a guqin,” a seven-string zither that is considered the most classical Chinese instrument.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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“Sometimes it sounded like a pipa”—a four-string Chinese lute—“and sometimes it sounded like a guqin,” a seven-string zither that is considered the most classical Chinese instrument.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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Two military geniuses take a break from war games to duel in a rousing jam session on the guqin, a zither-like stringed instrument.
Woo-Hoo! Hong Kong Auteur Sinks <i>Titanic</i> with <i>Red Cliffs</i> 2009
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“Sometimes it sounded like a pipa”—a four-string Chinese lute—“and sometimes it sounded like a guqin,” a seven-string zither that is considered the most classical Chinese instrument.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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“Sometimes it sounded like a pipa”—a four-string Chinese lute—“and sometimes it sounded like a guqin,” a seven-string zither that is considered the most classical Chinese instrument.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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Two military geniuses take a break from war games to duel in a rousing jam session on the guqin, a zither-like stringed instrument.
Woo-Hoo! Hong Kong Auteur Sinks <i>Titanic</i> with <i>Red Cliffs</i> 2009
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Two military geniuses take a break from war games to duel in a rousing jam session on the guqin, a zither-like stringed instrument.
Woo-Hoo! Hong Kong Auteur Sinks <i>Titanic</i> with <i>Red Cliffs</i> 2009
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“Sometimes it sounded like a pipa”—a four-string Chinese lute—“and sometimes it sounded like a guqin,” a seven-string zither that is considered the most classical Chinese instrument.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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Go is one of the most ancient games, and is considered one of the four arts of the Chinese gentleman, along with calligraphy, painting, and playing the guqin.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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The seven-stringed guqin, a zither-like instrument which came to represent the refined tastes of China's imperial court, was auctioned on Sunday by Poly International Auction, the
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