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[[File:Qin.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A ''qin'' on display at the Metropolitan Museum]]
[[File:Qin.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A ''qin'' on display at the Metropolitan Museum]]
::''This page is about the musical instruments. For other meanings of the word Qin, see [[Qin (disambiguation)]].''
::''This page is about the musical instruments. For other meanings of the word Qin, see [[Qin (disambiguation)]].''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 琴 ''(qín / kin)''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 琴 ''(qín / kin)'', 古琴 ''(gǔqín / kokin)''
The ''qin'' is a traditional Chinese musical instrument. A thirteen-stringed zither, it is closely related to the ''[[guzheng]]'' and to the Japanese ''[[koto]]''. The standard form of the ''qin'' is said to date back to the [[Han Dynasty]] (c. 206 BCE-[[220]] CE), and is the instrument most classically associated with the [[literati]].
The ''qin'' is a traditional Chinese musical instrument. A thirteen-stringed zither, it is closely related to the ''[[guzheng]]'' and to the Japanese ''[[koto]]''. The standard form of the ''qin'' is said to date back to the [[Han Dynasty]] (c. 206 BCE-[[220]] CE), and is the instrument most classically associated with the [[literati]].
