四よん胡えびす

Chinese

		four	barbarian; recklessly; surname
trad. (四よん胡えびす)		四よん	胡えびす
simp. #(四よん胡えびす)		四よん	胡えびす

Etymology

四よん (sì, “four”) +‎ 胡えびす (hú, “fiddle”, short for 胡えびす琴きん (húqín), a family of Chinese vertical fiddles), implying "four-stringed fiddle." During the Qing Dynasty the original official name of this instrument was tiqin (提琴ていきん) and the original vernacular name was sixian (四よん絃) before sihu was finally adopted in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sìhú

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ ㄏㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sei³ wu^4-2

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sìhú
    • Zhuyin: ㄙˋ ㄏㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìhhú
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ⁴-hu²
    • Yale: sz̀-hú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syhhwu
    • Palladius: сыху (syxu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹ xu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sei³ wu^4-2
    • Yale: sei wú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sei³ wu^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: séi³ wu^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sei̯³³ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

Noun

四よん胡えびす

1. sihu (a bowed string instrument with two pairs of strings used in Chinese folk music)

Synonyms

• (Jin) 四股しこ子こ