guqin

Chinese plucked string instrument: kind of zither or lyre, typically with 5 or 7 strings
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guqin

Summary

guqin ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (638 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • guqin's image is recorded as ZhongNiShi.jpg[2].
  • guqin's audio is recorded as Guqin-Zuiyu Changwan.ogg[3].
  • guqin's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85023979[4].
  • guqin's subclass of is recorded as Plucked string instrument[5].
  • guqin's subclass of is recorded as tube zither[6].
  • guqin's part of is recorded as four arts of the Chinese scholar[7].
  • guqin's Commons category is recorded as Guqin[8].
  • guqin's country of origin is recorded as China[9].
  • guqin's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03mt9c[10].
  • guqin's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph869794[11].
  • guqin's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Guqin[12].
  • guqin's Commons gallery is recorded as 古琴[13].
  • guqin's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/00061[14].
  • guqin's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/00061[15].
  • guqin's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/es/RL/00061[16].
  • guqin's MusicBrainz instrument ID is recorded as 6e6329ed-27c0-4ace-a6fd-bfc03ae68a40[17].
  • guqin's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000253079[18].
  • guqin's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/qin-musical-instrument[19].
  • guqin's topic has template is recorded as Template:Qin list[20].
  • guqin's used by is recorded as guqin player[21].
  • guqin's BBC Things ID is recorded as e837d26f-ceac-4a03-9489-0458eb899914[22].
  • guqin's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 312.22[23].
  • guqin's has list is recorded as list of guqin songs[24].
  • guqin's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as qin-musique[25].
  • guqin's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity[26].

Why It Matters

guqin ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (638 views/month).[1] guqin has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] guqin is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18d ago · Kolja21 · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin
    Topic's main category Category:Guqin
    Subclass of Plucked string instrument, tube zither
    Used by guqin player
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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