qin

1. (music) Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.Examples: "... there was no longer anyone worth playing his qin for, so he broke his instrument and never played again. The guqin was also a means of expressing love."; "He makes his qin students take calligraphy with him, and calligraphy and painting students play the qin."; "Knowing that we play the qin, they told us that there was a qin in the teahouse, but only for decoration – no one there actually knew how to play it."