Nounmusic for strings; string music

Nounorchestral music

Nounstring instrument; stringed instrument

Nounstring (of a shamisen, etc.) · stringed instrument

Nounwind and string instruments; music

Nounsound of the strings

Nouncatgut

Nounfive strings; five-stringed instrument

Nounshamisen; samisen · sanxian (Chinese lute) · the three string instruments used in gagaku (biwa, wagon and sou)

Nounsinging and (string) music

Noungeisha; woman who entertains (e.g. by playing the shamisen) for her living

Nounfour strings; four-stringed instrument · biwa

Nounsingle-stringed Japanese zither

Nountwo-stringed koto

Nounqin (7-stringed Chinese zither); guqin; seven-stringed koto

Nounfive-stringed instrument; pentachord