# 弦仔
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): hièn-é / hiàn-é
    (Hailu, HRS): hien er
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiân-á
* Hakka
** (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hièn-é
*** Hakka Romanization System: hien$^ˇ$ e$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: hian$^2$ e$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /hi̯en¹¹ e³¹/
** (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hiàn-é
*** Hakka Romanization System: hian$^ˇ$ e$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: hian$^2$ e$^3$
*** 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
* (Hakka, Southern Min) huqin (any of a family of vertical bowed lutes used in Chinese music), especially the erhu

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 胡琴 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 胡琴兒, 呼呼兒, 呼兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 胡琴 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 胡胡兒 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Tianjin | 胡兒 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 胡琴兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 胡胡 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 胡胡兒 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 胡胡子 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 弦索 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 胡琴 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 胡琴 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 胡琴 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 弦仔 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 弦仔 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 弦仔 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 弦 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 弦仔 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 弦子 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 胡胡, 葫蘆子 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 胡胡 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 弦仔 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 弦仔 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 弦仔 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 弦 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 胡琴 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 胡琴, 盧琴 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 胡琴子, 二弦 |
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 二胡, 南胡 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 南胡, 二胡 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 二胡 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 二胡兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 二胡兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 二胡兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) | 胡琴 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Masanchin (Shaanxi Dungan) | 二胡子 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 胡胡子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 二胡 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 二胡, 二弦 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 二胡 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 二胡 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 二胡 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 二胡 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 二弦 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 二弦 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 二弦 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 二弦 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 二弦 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 二弦 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 胡琴 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 二胡 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 弦仔, 二胡 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 二胡, 尿升 humorous |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 弦仔, 二胡 |
| Southern Min | Zhao'an | 二弦, 胡弦 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 胡琴 |

### References

* “Entry #7760”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.