Yangqin

The trapezoidal yangqin (simplified Chinese: 扬琴; traditional Chinese: 揚琴; pinyin: yángqín; Jyutping: joeng4 kam4) is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, likely derived from the Iranian santur or the European dulcimer. It used to be written with the characters 洋琴 (lit. "foreign zither"), but the first character was changed in the early 20th century to 揚 (also pronounced yáng), meaning "acclaimed". It is also spelled yang ch'in.