弦仔

Chinese

		bow string; string of mus. instr.	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
trad. (弦仔/絃仔)		弦/絃	仔
simp. (弦仔)		弦	仔

Pronunciation

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): hièn-é / hiàn-é

  (Hailu, HRS): hien er

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiân-á

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• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hièn-é
    • Hakka Romanization System: hien^ˇ e^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hian² e³
    • Sinological IPA: /hi̯en¹¹ e³¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hiàn-é
    • Hakka Romanization System: hian^ˇ e^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hian² e³
    • Sinological IPA: /hi̯an¹¹ e³¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: hien er
    • Sinological IPA: /hien⁵⁵ ə⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiân-á
    • Tâi-lô: hiân-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hien'ar
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɛn¹³⁻²² a⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɛn²³⁻³³ a⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hiɛn²⁴⁻²² a⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn²⁴⁻³³ a⁵³/

Noun

弦仔

1. (Hakka, Southern Min) huqin (any of a family of vertical bowed lutes used in Chinese music), especially the erhu

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		胡琴
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	胡琴兒, 呼呼兒, 呼兒
	Taiwan	胡琴
	Harbin	胡胡兒
Jilu Mandarin	Tianjin	胡兒
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	胡琴兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	胡胡
	Xi'an	胡胡兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	胡胡子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	弦索
Gan	Nanchang	胡琴
	Lichuan	胡琴
Hakka	Yudu	胡琴
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	弦仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	弦仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	弦仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	弦
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	弦仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	弦子
Jin	Taiyuan	胡胡, 葫蘆子
	Xinzhou	胡胡
Southern Min	Xiamen	弦仔
	Zhangzhou	弦仔
	Tainan	弦仔
	Haikou	弦
Wu	Shanghai	胡琴
	Ningbo	胡琴, 盧琴
Xiang	Changsha	胡琴子, 二弦

Dialectal synonyms of 胡琴 (“huqin”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		二胡, 南胡
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	南胡, 二胡
	Singapore	二胡
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	二胡兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	二胡兒
	Xi'an	二胡兒
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	胡琴
	Masanchin (Shaanxi Dungan)	二胡子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	胡胡子
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	二胡
Cantonese	Guangzhou	二胡, 二弦
	Hong Kong	二胡
	Taishan	二胡
Gan	Nanchang	二胡
	Lichuan	二胡
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	二弦
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	二弦
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	二弦
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	二弦
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	二弦
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	二弦
Huizhou	Jixi	胡琴
Northern Min	Jian'ou	二胡
Southern Min	Xiamen	弦仔, 二胡
	Quanzhou	二胡, 尿升 humorous
	Zhangzhou	弦仔, 二胡
	Zhao'an	二弦, 胡弦
Wu	Shanghai	胡琴

Dialectal synonyms of 二胡 (“erhu”) [map]

References

• “弦仔”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.