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鼓

Mandarin · pinyin gǔ

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鼓: gǔ · drum; beat, top, strike; Kangxi radical 207

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3 · gu3

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gu2

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(music) drum (Classifier: 面 m)
to drum; to beat a drum
(literary) to play; to perform; to sound (a musical instrument)
to beat; to clap
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to blast hot air for smelting
to incite; to encourage
to protrude; to bulge
a surname

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