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- guqin or qin, a long zither with seven strings, plucked with the fingers
- liuqin lute, smaller version of the pipa 琵琶, with holes in the soundbox, and range similar to that of a violin
- huqin
- family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
Trad. 倫琴
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), German mechanical engineer
- instrument of the violin family (violin, viola, cello or double bass)
- CL:把[ba3]
Trad. 琴書
- traditional art form, consisting of sung story telling with musical accompaniment
- qin and se, two string instruments that play in perfect harmony
- marital harmony
Trad. 馬頭琴
- morin khuur (Mongolian bowed stringed instrument)
Trad. 黑琴雞
- (bird species of China) black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix)
Trad. 阿爾袞琴
- Algonquin (North American people)
Trad. 對牛彈琴
- lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom)
- fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience
- to cast pearls before swine
- caviar to the general
- to preach to deaf ears
- to talk over sb's head
- person and lute have both vanished (idiom)
- death of a close friend
- Lyra, constellation containing Vega 織女星|织女星[Zhi1 nu:3 xing1]
Trad. 一琴一鶴
- carrying very little luggage (idiom)
- honest and incorruptible (government officials)
Trad. 琴劍飄零
- floating between zither and sword (idiom); fig. wandering aimlessly with no tenured position
Trad. 焚琴煮鶴
- lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes
- fig. to waste valuable resources
- to destroy wantonly beautiful things
Trad. 琴棋書畫
- (idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person
Trad. 琴瑟不調
- out of tune
- marital discord, cf qin and se 琴瑟, two string instruments as symbol of marital harmony
Trad. 琴瑟和鳴
- in perfect harmony
- in sync
- lit. qin and se sing in harmony
Trad. 索爾仁尼琴
- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago