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  • noun music seven-stringed classical Chinese zither that does not have a bridge, sometimes referred to as guqin where gu stands for ancient.

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Examples

  • On other floors, a fourth-grade class took an English spelling test while a group of seventh-graders practiced playing the Chinese yue qin guitar and the zither-like guzheng in a music class.

    Growing Diversity Fuels Chinese School Yukari Iwatani Kane 2011

  • “Shang shi wen Dao, qin er xi zhi” pronounced shahng shr wun dow, cheen ur shee jr means the serious Xiu Lian practitioner who hears about Tao, The Way, or the truth, will do serious practice actively, continuously, and persistently.

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • “Shang shi wen Dao, qin er xi zhi” pronounced shahng shr wun dow, cheen ur shee jr means the serious Xiu Lian practitioner who hears about Tao, The Way, or the truth, will do serious practice actively, continuously, and persistently.

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • This must go beyond old Cold War concepts of fan-Hua or qin-Hua that is, of either being anti-China or pro-China.

    A New Sinology 2010

  • “Shang shi wen Dao, qin er xi zhi” pronounced shahng shr wun dow, cheen ur shee jr means the serious Xiu Lian practitioner who hears about Tao, The Way, or the truth, will do serious practice actively, continuously, and persistently.

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • “Shang shi wen Dao, qin er xi zhi” pronounced shahng shr wun dow, cheen ur shee jr means the serious Xiu Lian practitioner who hears about Tao, The Way, or the truth, will do serious practice actively, continuously, and persistently.

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • Farewell My Concubine: I'm a big fan of Kaige Chen's 1998 film, The Emperor and the Assassin (or "Jing ke ci qin wang"), which is an incredible epic about the founding of the Qin dynasty, the first time in history China was united as one country.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Lou Anders 2007

  • However, since they do not, in fact, use any term interpretable as expressing an explicit concept of experience, we should stick closely to their terminology and characterize “personal knowledge” (qin zhi, B70) as knowledge by observation (guan).

    Mohist Canons Fraser, Chris 2009

  • Farewell My Concubine: I'm a big fan of Kaige Chen's 1998 film, The Emperor and the Assassin (or "Jing ke ci qin wang"), which is an incredible epic about the founding of the Qin dynasty, the first time in history China was united as one country.

    The New Lou Review 5 Lou Anders 2007

  • "Shi qi shi ji Riben ren zhi Taiwan qin lüe xing dong" 十七世紀日本人之臺灣侵略行動.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

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  • Chambers 2008 defines "qin" (note the lowercase q) as a Chinese seven-stringed musical instrument. Once this word comes into use for Scrabble, this will immediately become a very frequently used word, second only to "qi", and overtaking "qat" in frequency of use.

    A variant spelling is "guqin", also in Chambers 2008.

    July 20, 2009