四胡

Chinese

		four	barbarian; recklessly; surname
simp. and trad. (四胡)		四	胡

Etymology

四 (“four”) +‎ 胡 (“fiddle”, short for 胡琴 (húqín), a family of Chinese vertical fiddles), implying "four-stringed fiddle." During the Qing Dynasty the original official name of this instrument was tiqin (提琴) and the original vernacular name was sixian (四絃) before sihu was finally adopted in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sìhú

(Zhuyin): ㄙˋ ㄏㄨˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: sìhú
  - Zhuyin: ㄙˋ ㄏㄨˊ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syhhwu
  - IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹ xu³⁵/

Noun

四胡

sihu; a bowed string instrument with two pairs of strings, used in Chinese folk music

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