琵琶

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Contents 1 Japanese 1.1 Noun 2 Korean 2.1 Noun 3 Mandarin 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Derived terms 3.2 References 4 Min Nan 4.1 Hanzi 5 Vietnamese 5.1 Noun

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Kanji in this term
琵	琶

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琵琶 (hiragana びわ, romaji biwa)

1. biwa (Japanese lute, a plucked, fretted pear-shaped lute with four or, more rarely, five strings).

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[edit] Korean

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琵琶 (비파, bipa)

1. bipa, lute (a plucked, fretted pear-shaped lute with four or, more rarely, five strings).

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[edit] Mandarin

simpl. and trad.

琵琶

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琵琶 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin pípa)

1. (music) pipa (a plucked Chinese string instrument)

[edit] Derived terms

• 琵琶骨
• 洋琵琶

[edit] References

• 琵琶 on the Mandarin Wikipedia.zh.Wikipedia
• pipa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:pipa
• "琵琶 (in Mandarin)." Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典). URL accessed on 2008-12-05.
• (2007) Hanyu Da Cidian 3.0 (in Mandarin). Hong Kong: Commercial Press. ISBN 9789620702778.
• Wu, Jingrong (ed.) (1985). The Pinyin CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (in Mandarin/English). Beijing, Hong Kong: The Commercial Press. ISBN 0471867969.

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琵琶 (POJ pî-pê/gî-pê)

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[edit] Vietnamese

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琵琶 (tỳ bà)

1. tỳ bà (also called đàn tỳ bà, or Vietnamese lute), a plucked, fretted pear-shaped lute with four strings.