| | face / side / surface / aspect / top / classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc | HSK 2 |
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| | drum / CL: 通, 面 / to drum / to strike / to rouse / to bulge / to swell | HSK 5 |
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| | to attract (customers); to drum up (trade) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to back sb up / to support sb in an argument / (lit. to beat nearby drum) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sound of drums | |
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| | (onom.) beating a drum / rat-a-tat | |
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| | snare drum | |
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| | (onom.) boom (of a drum) / knock (on the door) | |
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| | a drum tower / Drum Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc | |
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| | to beat sb / to beat (a drum) | |
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| | roller / cylinder (machine part) / drum | |
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| | bronze drum / (Western-style) drum | |
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| | gongs and drums / Chinese percussion instruments | |
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| | to pound (with a mortar and pestle); to hit (a person); to beat (a drum); to bang on (a door) / (dialect) to scold | |
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| | sound of a drum / drumbeat | |
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| | to beat a drum / to play a drum / (fig.) to feel nervous | |
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| | circular cylinder / drum | |
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| | drum tower | |
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| | drum beat / rhythm | |
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| | roller / rotating dial / (computer mouse) scroll wheel / (road roller) drum | |
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| | flower drum, a type of double-skinned Chinese drum / folk dance popular in provinces around the middle reaches of the Yangtze / (bicycle wheel) hub | |
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| | lit. urgent beating of gongs and drums (idiom) / fig. to urgently prepare for an upcoming event | |
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| | waist drum / waist-drum dance (Han ethnic group folk dance) | |
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| | noise of drums | |
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| | bass drum | |
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| | large drum | |
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| | lit. kept inside a drum (idiom) / fig. completely in the dark | |
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| | lit. two armies have equivalent banners and drums (idiom); fig. evenly matched / roughly comparable (opponents) | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | to canvas (for customers) / to solicit / to advertise / to drum up / sales pitch / to take on (a task) | |
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| | lit. to reorganize flags and drums (idiom); to regroup after a setback / to prepare for new initiatives / to attempt a comeback | |
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| | rotary drum | |
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| | lit. to beat the return drum (idiom) / fig. to give up / to turn tail | |
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| | (archaic) drum | |
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| | outer skin / surface / leather cover (of a book) / drum skin / leather upper (of a shoe) | |
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| | (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 | |
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| | lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom); fig. to cease / to give in | |
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| | lit. morning bell, evening drum, symbolizing monastic practice (idiom); fig. encouragement to study or progress | |
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| | tambourine (musical instrument) / bell and drum | |
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| | lit. evening drum, morning bell (idiom); fig. Buddhist monastic practice / the passage of time in a disciplined existence | |
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| | drum marking night watches / night watchman's clapper | |
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| | drum carried on horseback | |
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| | sound of drums and bells / trident | |
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| | double-ended skin drum with a narrow waist | |
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| | (onom.) the thump of a big drum | |
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| | sound of drum | |
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| | music of bell and drum | |
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| | large brass drum | |
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| | deep and still / sound of a drum | |
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| | small drum for marking time | |
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| | milk / sound of a drum | |
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| | lit. the hammer fits the drum (idiom); appropriate relation between the different parts / closely interrelated | |
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| | thunderous beating of drums | |
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| | drum practice pad (music) / a practice drum (music) | |
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| | gongs and drums overture to a Chinese opera / to create a disturbance | |
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| | drum roll | |
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| | drum kit (Tw) | |
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| | drum stick; bass drum mallet / CL: 把 | |
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| | drum kit | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | lit. to drum on a bowl / refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife / fig. grief for a lost wife | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | to beat time; to mark rhythm on drum or clapper boards | |
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| | watch tower / drum tower marking night watches | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | floor tom (drum kit component) | |
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| | China cymbal (drum kit component) | |
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| | beat a drum / startle | |
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| | tom-tom (drum) | |
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| | to sigh / sound of a drum | |
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| | Chinese drum-shaped stool | |
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| | splash cymbal (drum kit component) | |
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| | lit. gong facing gong, drum opposite drum (idiom) / fig. to come together to thrash out the issue face to face | |
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| | ride cymbal (drum kit component) | |
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| | crash cymbal (drum kit component) | |
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| | tom-tom drum (drum kit component) | |
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| | drumming to make apricots flower, cf joke by Tang Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, playing the drum in apricot blossom | |
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| | hi-hat (drum kit component) | |
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| | copper drum | |
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| | drum and bass (music genre) | |
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