erhu; Chinese two-stringed fiddle
Refers specifically to the traditional Chinese bowed instrument with two strings, commonly used in Chinese music and increasingly known in Japan.
She is learning to play the erhu.
She practices playing the erhu every day.
I heard the beautiful tone of the erhu at the concert.
I studied abroad in China and learned to play the erhu.
Used for erhu because it is a long, slender stringed instrument, which this counter typically measures.
Standard kanji spelling for the Chinese two-stringed fiddle.
Kana spelling is sometimes used in informal writing or when the kanji are not needed.
From Chinese 二胡 (èrhú), literally 'two-stringed barbarian fiddle'. The kanji 二 means 'two', and 胡 refers to the instrument's foreign (non-Han) origins.