qin
IPA: kˈɪn
noun
- (music) Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.
- An ancient feudal state of China that existed between 778 and 207 BC.
- The first imperial dynasty of China, lasting from 221 to 207 BC.
- A surname from Chinese.
- A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
Examples of "qin" in Sentences
- It was no match for the Qin state.
- The Qin had no intention of leaving.
- Ba was then converted into a Qin commandery.
- Below is a list of common tunings for the qin.
- It is commonly used to make the undersides of qin.
- I'm on a roll with the qin and musn't be hampered.
- Qin forms are shapes or styles which a qin can be made in.
- The main purpose of qin societies is to promote and play qin music.
- The quick fall of the Qin Dynasty was attributed to this proscription.
- "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.
- Early Han punishments of torturous mutilation were borrowed from Qin law.
- This must go beyond old Cold War concepts of fan-Hua or qin-Hua that is, of either being anti-China or pro-China.
- 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.
- “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.
- 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.
- 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).