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
- Cantonese (Jyutping): sei3 wu4-2
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): si4 hou2
- 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/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: sei3 wu4-2
- Yale: sei wú
- Cantonese Pinyin: sei3 wu4-2
- Guangdong Romanization: séi3 wu4-2
- Sinological IPA (key): /sei̯³³ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: si4 hou2 [Phonetic: si4 ou2]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: si̍-hó
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬi⁴² (h-)ɔu¹³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: si4 hou2 [Phonetic: si1 ou2]
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬi⁴²⁻⁵⁵ (h-)ɔu²⁴/
- (Putian)
Noun
四胡
- 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.