板胡

板胡

Chinese

		wooden board (i.e. wooden face of the instrument's body)	huqin
trad. (板胡)		板	胡
simp. #(板胡)		板	胡

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǎnhú

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˇ ㄏㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baan² wu^4-2
• Jin (Wiktionary): ban² hu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǎnhú
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˇ ㄏㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǎnhú
    • Wade–Giles: pan³-hu²
    • Yale: bǎn-hú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baanhwu
    • Palladius: баньху (banʹxu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ xu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: baan² wu^4-2
    • Yale: báan wú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baan² wu^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: ban² wu^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːn³⁵ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: ban² hu¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /pæ̃⁵³ xu¹¹/

Noun

板胡

1. (music) banhu (a bowed string instrument with two strings and a coconut shell body with wooden soundboard)

Usage notes

• The instrument is used primarily in the traditional music of northern and northeastern China.

Synonyms

• 梆胡
• 梆子胡
• 胡呼
• 呼胡 (hūhú)
• 胡胡
• 秦胡