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Diameter: 50.3 mm Weight: 31.1 g Obverse:  Qin - Chinese lute or guitar Se - large stringed musical instrument; dignified, massive; sound of wind You - friend, companion; fraternity Zhi - This; he, she, it, they, them. The basic meaning of the character is 'to go, proceed' (reflected as 'to go out' in the Shuowen gloss, but occurring in texts only
with the normal meaning 'to go, proceed'); the use of for a pronoun is secondary, due to homonymy.
Message from Martynn Koh (19-Oct-2000):
The bottom word is pronounced as Se (or Sir), it is a 16 or 25 string plucked instrument also looks like a zither. The word on left and right means " Friend of". Therefore, the four character Qin Se Zi You literally means Friend of the Qin and Se musical instrument. It is believed that this charm is made for or by a group of musicians.  Zhong - locust or grasshopper Si - a near demonstrative: this, he, she, it, they; to lop off. Yan - flow over, flow out; go to excess; abundant, extensive Qing - happy, rejoice; felicitate.Zhong Si Yan Qing - Congratulations with newborn! | |
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