洋よう琴きん

noun

yangqin; Chinese hammered dulcimer

Refers specifically to the traditional Chinese trapezoidal hammered dulcimer.

• 洋よう琴きんは中ちゅう国ごくの伝でん統とう的てきな打だ弦げん楽がっ器きです。

  The yangqin is a traditional Chinese hammered dulcimer.

noun

piano (obsolete)

Obsolete term for piano; modern Japanese uses ピアノ. This usage is historical and no longer current.

See also: ピアノ

• 明めい治じ時じ代だいには、洋よう琴きんという言こと葉ばがピアノを指さして使つかわれた。

  In the Meiji period, the word 洋琴 was used to refer to the piano.