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drum / CL: , / to drum / to strike / to rouse / to bulge / to swell
HSK 5
to encourage
HSK 5
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old variant of
HSK 5
to applaud / to clap
HSK 5
to inspire; to encourage; to hearten; to boost (morale)
HSK 7-9
to urge (an activity that may be beneficial, harmful or neutral); to encourage; to agitate; to instigate; to incite / to beat; to flap (wings, a fan etc)
HSK 7-9
in a spurt of energy
HSK 7-9
to back sb up / to support sb in an argument / (lit. to beat nearby drum)
HSK 7-9
Gulangyu, scenic island off Xiamen 廈門|厦门
Dangu district of Hengyang city 衡陽市|衡阳市, Hunan
snare drum
toner cartridge
a drum tower / Drum Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc
drummer
Tonggu county in Yichun 宜春, Jiangxi
bronze drum / (Western-style) drum
gongs and drums / Chinese percussion instruments
to agitate for / to enthusiastically promote
sound of a drum / drumbeat
to beat a drum / to play a drum / (fig.) to feel nervous
drum beat / rhythm
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)
a forced draft (of wind, for smelting metal) / blast (in blast furnace) / bellows / to draw air using bellows
Gushan or Kushan district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市, south Taiwan
(idiom) with great fanfare; on a grand scale
to fiddle with sth / to trade with sth
bass drum
seething / fuming
eardrum; tympanic membrane
to tinker with / to incite
to wag one's tongue / to speak glibly
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)
lit. to reorganize flags and drums (idiom); to regroup after a setback / to prepare for new initiatives / to attempt a comeback
to summon one's (courage, faith etc) / to puff up (one's cheeks etc) / to bulge / to swell out
rotary drum
lit. to beat the return drum (idiom) / fig. to give up / to turn tail
to swell / tympanites
(idiom) elated and excited; overjoyed
(idiom) (of a pocket, pouch etc) full and bulging
round and bulging / rotund / protruding
(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
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
drum marking night watches / night watchman's clapper
tympanic cavity (of the middle ear)
early form of Chinese characters inscribed in stone, a precursor of the small seal 小篆
(old) musicians at a wedding cortege or funeral procession / (fig.) trumpeter of sb's praises / booster
double-ended skin drum with a narrow waist
small drum for marking time
lit. the hammer fits the drum (idiom); appropriate relation between the different parts / closely interrelated
to raise a storm / to stir up trouble / to instigate
timpani
to echo what sb said / to back sb up from the sidelines (in an argument)
opening gong / gong strokes announcing start of opera performance
drum practice pad (music) / a practice drum (music)
Gulou, the name of districts in Nanjing (in Jiangsu), Xuzhou (in Jiangsu), Fuzhou (in Fujian) and Kaifeng (in Henan)
drum kit (Tw)
percussion instrument in the form of a bamboo fish (traditionally used by Daoist priests)
opera form popular along Changjiang
percussion instrument in the form of a bamboo fish (traditionally used by Daoist priests)
to summon one's courage
drum kit
encouraging / heartening
to bulge; to swell / a bulge; a swelling
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)
to summon one's courage
clapper-board
bellows / ventilator / air blower
lit. to drum on a bowl / refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife / fig. grief for a lost wife
Eustachian tube (linking the pharynx to the tympanic cavity 鼓室 of the middle ear) / auditory tube
to puff up / to swell up / to inflate / to blow air into sth / (fig.) to encourage / to support
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
a blast furnace (in modern times) / a draft assisted furnace for smelting metals
cajón (musical instrument)
Dangu district of Hengyang city 衡陽市|衡阳市, Hunan
advocate
(neologism) (slang) to have sex
bulging
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
Altair (star)
floor tom (drum kit component)
beginning-school ceremony (old usage) / classical learning
drumbeat / (Chinese opera) clapper beats
tom-tom (drum)
to advocate vociferously
to put strings on the zither, then play it (line from a Ming dynasty text by 劉伯溫|刘伯温) / (fig.) to play music
toner cartridge
lit. to beat a gong; fig. to irritate sb / a provocation
hydraulic bellows / water-driven ventilation (for metal smelting furnace)

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