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  *面* | 面* | *面
face / side / surface / aspect / top / classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc
HSK 2
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  *鼓* | 鼓* | *鼓
drum / CL: , / to drum / to strike / to rouse / to bulge / to swell
HSK 5
to attract (customers); to drum up (trade)
HSK 7-9
to back sb up / to support sb in an argument / (lit. to beat nearby drum)
HSK 7-9
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  *隆* | 隆* | *隆
sound of drums
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  *冬* | 冬* | *冬
(onom.) beating a drum / rat-a-tat
snare drum
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  *咚* | 咚* | *咚
(onom.) boom (of a drum) / knock (on the door)
a drum tower / Drum Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc
to beat sb / to beat (a drum)
roller / cylinder (machine part) / drum
bronze drum / (Western-style) drum
gongs and drums / Chinese percussion instruments
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  *擂* | 擂* | *擂
to pound (with a mortar and pestle); to hit (a person); to beat (a drum); to bang on (a door) / (dialect) to scold
sound of a drum / drumbeat
to beat a drum / to play a drum / (fig.) to feel nervous
circular cylinder / drum
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  *谯* | 谯* | *谯
drum tower
drum beat / rhythm
roller / rotating dial / (computer mouse) scroll wheel / (road roller) drum
flower drum, a type of double-skinned Chinese drum / folk dance popular in provinces around the middle reaches of the Yangtze / (bicycle wheel) hub
lit. urgent beating of gongs and drums (idiom) / fig. to urgently prepare for an upcoming event
waist drum / waist-drum dance (Han ethnic group folk dance)
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  *镗* | 镗* | *镗
noise of drums
bass drum
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  *鼛* | 鼛* | *鼛
large drum
lit. kept inside a drum (idiom) / fig. completely in the dark
lit. two armies have equivalent banners and drums (idiom); fig. evenly matched / roughly comparable (opponents)
rattle drum; pellet drum – a hand drum with two pellets attached to strings on either side, mounted on a rod that is twirled to make the pellets strike the drum (used in ritual music, as a children's toy or as a street vendor's noisemaker)
to canvas (for customers) / to solicit / to advertise / to drum up / sales pitch / to take on (a task)
lit. to reorganize flags and drums (idiom); to regroup after a setback / to prepare for new initiatives / to attempt a comeback
rotary drum
lit. to beat the return drum (idiom) / fig. to give up / to turn tail
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  *壴* | 壴* | *壴
(archaic) drum
outer skin / surface / leather cover (of a book) / drum skin / leather upper (of a shoe)
(in ancient times) to beat the drums and yell (at the moment of launching into battle) / to create a clamor; to make a din; to kick up a fuss about
lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom); fig. to cease / to give in
lit. morning bell, evening drum, symbolizing monastic practice (idiom); fig. encouragement to study or progress
tambourine (musical instrument) / bell and drum
lit. evening drum, morning bell (idiom); fig. Buddhist monastic practice / the passage of time in a disciplined existence
drum marking night watches / night watchman's clapper
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  *鼙* | 鼙* | *鼙
drum carried on horseback
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  *锽* | 锽* | *锽
sound of drums and bells / trident
double-ended skin drum with a narrow waist
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  *鼟* | 鼟* | *鼟
(onom.) the thump of a big drum
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  *鼚* | 鼚* | *鼚
sound of drum
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  *韹* | 韹* | *韹
music of bell and drum
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  *鼖* | 鼖* | *鼖
large brass drum
deep and still / sound of a drum
small drum for marking time
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  *湩* | 湩* | *湩
milk / sound of a drum
lit. the hammer fits the drum (idiom); appropriate relation between the different parts / closely interrelated
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  *駴* | 駴* | *駴
thunderous beating of drums
drum practice pad (music) / a practice drum (music)
gongs and drums overture to a Chinese opera / to create a disturbance
drum roll
drum kit (Tw)
drum stick; bass drum mallet / CL:
drum kit
beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)
lit. to drum on a bowl / refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife / fig. grief for a lost wife
drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife) / fig. grief for a lost wife
to beat time; to mark rhythm on drum or clapper boards
watch tower / drum tower marking night watches
to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
floor tom (drum kit component)
China cymbal (drum kit component)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *咢* | 咢* | *咢
beat a drum / startle
tom-tom (drum)
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  *嚝* | 嚝* | *嚝
to sigh / sound of a drum
Chinese drum-shaped stool
splash cymbal (drum kit component)
lit. gong facing gong, drum opposite drum (idiom) / fig. to come together to thrash out the issue face to face
ride cymbal (drum kit component)
crash cymbal (drum kit component)
tom-tom drum (drum kit component)
drumming to make apricots flower, cf joke by Tang Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, playing the drum in apricot blossom
hi-hat (drum kit component)
copper drum
drum and bass (music genre)


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