Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

qinpu

/t͡ʃɪnˈpuː/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: qin-pu
IPA: /t͡ʃɪnˈpuː/

16

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.

Example Sentences

"In qin music the pervasive mood/mode (when one can be said to be at the fore) is the autumn/shang correlation, and in many qinpu (collections of qin notations), pieces in shang are the most numerous."
"A qin handbook is called qinpu in Chinese, which means literally qin tablature. Beginning from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), many qinpu were printed after prince Zhu Chuan edited and printed the first qinpu, Shenqi Mipu (The Wonderful Esoteric Tablature)."
"As we look back into the early collections of qin notations, known as qinpu, we find an interesting collection of pictures in the pedagogical sections of several important qinpu."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 琴譜 /琴谱 (qínpǔ).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 琴譜

Questions

How do you pronounce qinpu?: The recorded pronunciation is /t͡ʃɪnˈpuː/.
What does qinpu mean?: Tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.
Where does qinpu come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 琴譜 /琴谱 (qínpǔ).

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