四胡

Chinese

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

Etymology

四 (sì, “four”) +‎ 胡 (hú, “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

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sei³ wu^4-2
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): si⁴ hou²

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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/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: si⁴ hou² [Phonetic: si⁴ ou²]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬi⁴² ^(h-)ɔu¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: si⁴ hou² [Phonetic: si¹ ou²]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬi⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(h-)ɔu¹³/

Noun

四胡

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

Synonyms

• (Jin) 四股子

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “四胡”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 480.