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yüeh-ch'in

yüeh-ch'in is the alternative form of yueqin.

Meaning of yueqin

Noun

yueqin (plural yueqin or yueqins)

  1. A small short-necked Chinese lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone) with a round, hollow wooden body and four strings in pairs in its traditional form, now more often with three or four unpaired strings.
    Synonyms:
    moon guitar, moon lute, moon zither, gekkin

Forms of yüeh-ch'in

pluralyüeh-ch'ins

Origin of yüeh-ch'in

The Wade romanization of Mandarin 月琴 (yuèqín, literally “moon(-shaped) stringed instrument”).

Questions about yüeh-ch'in

What is yüeh-ch'in the alternative form of?
Yüeh-ch'in is the alternative form of yueqin.

Words near yüeh-ch'in in the dictionary

  1. Yü-lin
  2. Yü-t'ien
  3. Yü-tien
  4. Yüan
  5. Yüeh
  6. yüeh-ch'in
  7. yüeh-ch'ins
  8. Yüeh-p'u-hu
  9. Yün-ch'eng
  10. Yün-meng
  11. Yün-nan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yüeh-ch'in (page history and authors); yueqin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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