Huqin (胡琴) – family of vertical fiddles |  |
Erhu (二胡) – two-stringed fiddle |  |
Zhonghu (中胡) – two-stringed fiddle, lower pitch than an erhu |  |
Gaohu (高胡) – two-stringed fiddle, higher pitch than an erhu; also called yuehu (粤胡) |  |
Banhu (板胡) – two-stringed fiddle with a coconut resonator and wooden face, used primarily in northern China |  |
Jinghu (京胡) – two-stringed fiddle (piccolo erhu), very high pitched, used mainly for Beijing opera |
Jing erhu (京二胡) – erhu used in Beijing opera |
Erxian (二弦) – a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family of instruments. It has two strings and is used primarily in Cantonese music, most often in "hard string" chamber ensembles. |  |
Zhutiqin (竹提琴) – a huqin (胡琴, vertical fiddle) with cylindrical bamboo resonator and paulownia soundboard used in old-style Cantonese opera, both staged (Chinese: gu qiang Yueju, 古腔粤剧) and non-staged (Chinese: gu qiang Yue qu, 古腔粤曲). |
Yehu (椰胡) – two-stringed fiddle with coconut body, used primarily in Cantonese and Chaozhou music |  |
Daguangxian (大广弦) – two-stringed fiddle used in Taiwan and Fujian, primarily by Min Nan and Hakka people; also called datongxian (大筒弦), guangxian (广弦), and daguanxian (大管弦) |
Datong (大筒) – two-stringed fiddle used in the traditional music of Hunan |
Kezaixian (壳仔弦) – two-stringed fiddle with coconut body, used in Taiwan opera |
Liujiaoxian (六角弦) – two-stringed fiddle with hexagonal body, similar to the jing erhu; used primarily in Taiwan |
Tiexianzai (鐵弦仔) – a two-stringed fiddle with metal amplifying horn at the end of its neck, used in Taiwan; also called guchuixian (鼓吹弦) |
Niujiaohu (牛角胡) – a yak's horn fiddle used primarily among the Tibetan people |
Huluhu (simplified Chinese: 葫芦胡; traditional Chinese: 葫盧胡) – two-stringed fiddle with gourd body used by the Zhuang of Guangxi |
Maguhu (simplified Chinese: 马骨胡; traditional Chinese: 馬骨胡; pinyin: mǎgǔhú) – two-stringed fiddle with horse bone body used by the Zhuang and Buyei peoples of southern China |
Tuhu (土胡) – two-stringed fiddle used by the Zhuang people of Guangxi |
Jiaohu (角胡) – two-stringed fiddle used by the Gelao people of Guangxi, as well as the Miao and Dong |
Liuhu (六胡) – six-stringed fiddle of Mongolian people in Inner Mongolia |
Sihu (四胡) – four-stringed fiddle with strings tuned in pairs |  |
Sanhu (三胡) – 3-stringed erhu with an additional bass string; developed in the 1970s |
Zhuihu (simplified Chinese: 坠胡; traditional Chinese: 墜胡) – two-stringed fiddle with fingerboard |
Zhuiqin (simplified Chinese: 坠琴; traditional Chinese: 墜琴) – two-stringed fiddle with fingerboard |
Leiqin (雷琴) – two-stringed fiddle with fingerboard |
Dihu (低胡) – low pitched two-stringed fiddles in the erhu family, in three sizes: |  |
Xiaodihu (小低胡) – small dihu, tuned one octave below the erhu |
Zhongdihu (中低胡) – medium dihu, tuned one octave below the zhonghu |
Dadihu (大低胡) – large dihu, tuned two octaves below the erhu |
Dahu (大胡) – another name for the xiaodihu |
Cizhonghu – another name for the xiaodihu |
Gehu (革胡) – four-stringed bass instrument, tuned and played like cello |
Diyingehu (低音革胡) – four-stringed contrabass instrument, tuned and played like double bass |
Laruan (拉阮) – four-stringed bowed instrument modeled on the cello |  |
Paqin (琶琴) – bowed pear-shaped lute |
Dapaqin (大琶琴) – bass paqin |
Niutuiqin or niubatui (牛腿琴 or 牛巴腿) – two-stringed fiddle used by the Dong people of Guizhou |
Matouqin (馬頭琴) – (Mongolian: morin khuur) – Mongolian two-stringed "horsehead fiddle" |  |
Xiqin (奚琴) – ancient prototype of huqin family of instruments |
Shaoqin (韶琴) – electric huqin |
Yazheng (simplified Chinese: 轧筝; traditional Chinese: 軋箏) – bowed zither; also called yaqin (simplified Chinese: 轧琴; traditional Chinese: 軋琴) |
Wenzhenqin (文枕琴) – a zither with 9 strings bowed |
Zhengni (琤尼) – bowed zither; used by the Zhuang people of Guangxi |
Ghaychak (艾捷克) – four-stringed bowed instrument used in Uyghur traditional music of Xinjiang; similar to kamancheh[3] |  |
Sataer (萨塔尔 or 萨它尔) – long-necked bowed lute with 13 strings used in Uyghur traditional music of Xinjiang. 1 playing string and 12 sympathetic strings. | 
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Khushtar (胡西它尔) – a four-stringed bowed instrument used in Uyghur traditional music of Xinjiang. | 
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Qiaoqin (桥琴) – cello-like instrument with snakeskin resonator) from Shenyang | |
Shenhu (桥琴) – a huqin (2-stringed vertical fiddle with snakeskin-covered resonator) with a distinctive broad, nasal timbre that is used as the primary accompanying huqin (zhu hu, 主胡) in Huju (沪剧), a genre of local Chinese opera (difang xiqu, 地方戏曲) from Shanghai. | |