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胡琴

Mandarin · pinyin hú qin

huqin
family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring

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胡: hú · recklessly, foolishly; wildly
琴: qín · Chinese lute or guitar

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2–5 · hu2 qin5

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wu4 kam4

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noun

huqin (any of a family of vertical bowed lutes used in Chinese music)
(Wu, Huizhou, specifically) erhu
(historical) a general term for foreign plucked string instruments of northern or northwestern origin

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