DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

擂鼓

Mandarin · pinyin léi gǔ

to beat a drum

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

擂: léi · rub, grind; grind with a mortar and pestle; triturate
鼓: gǔ · drum; beat, top, strike; Kangxi radical 207

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–3 · lei2 gu3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

擂鼓 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 3 senses · 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

leoi4 gu2

Cantonese word readings for 擂鼓. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

verb

(archaic) to beat the drums (of war)

name

(～鎮) Leigu (a town in Zhushan, Shiyan, Hubei, China)

verb

(Taiwanese Hokkien) to play the drums

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack