Kanji1 / 13
鼓 kanji
drum, beat, rouse, muster
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
コ
Kun readings
つづみ
Variant forms
皷Words with 鼓
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鼓楼temple tower housing a drum for marking the passing of time
- —鐘鼓bells and drums (for music or signals)
- —簫鼓flutes and drums
- —鼓手長drum major
- —鼓吹者advocate; propagator
- —鼓笛隊drum and fife band
- —陣太鼓war drum
- —太鼓判large seal; large stamp; seal of approval; guarantee; endorsement
- —和太鼓Japanese drum
- —大太鼓large drum; bass drum
- —太鼓腹potbelly; paunch
- —太鼓橋arched bridge
- —櫓太鼓drums which announce the opening of a stage performance or commencement of bouts; the sound produced by such drums
- —小太鼓small drum
- —締太鼓small high-pitched Japanese drum or taiko with its head pulled taut by ropes
- —太鼓台very large float used to carry taiko at festivals
- —御太鼓very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash
- —太鼓虫dragonfly naiad (nymph)
- —鼓するto beat (a drum); to pluck up courage
- —細腰鼓waisted drum; hourglass drum