さんしん

See also: さんじん and ざんしん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of さんしん – see the following entries.

【三線】 [noun] a fretless plucked lute with three strings and a skin-covered body originally from Okinawa, the precursor to the shamisen

(This term, さんしん (sanshin), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 三信, 三心, 三身, 三辰, 三津, 三晋, 三針, 三親, 参進, 散心.)

Okinawan

Noun

さんしん (sanshin) 

1. 三線: fretless picked lute of Okinawan origin with three strings and skin-covered body, precursor to the shamisen