Definitions

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  • noun music A plucked, seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family, favoured by scholars and the literati 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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From Mandarin 古琴 (gǔqín), made up of ‘ancient’ and ‘stringed instrument’.

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Examples

  • “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

  • “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

  • 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

  • “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

  • “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

  • 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

  • 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

  • “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

  • 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

  • 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

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

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