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
- —太鼓焼きimagawayaki; thick pancake containing bean jam, served hot
- —火焔太鼓dadaiko drum (decorated with flames)
- —担い太鼓ninaidaiko; drum carried on a pole, used in bugaku and gagaku performances
- —押し太鼓war drum
- —桶胴太鼓barrel drum; drum with an uncurved body
- —頚鼓動脈caroticotympanic arteries
- —太鼓医者doctor who curries favor with patients instead of practicing skilled medicine; quack doctor who flatters his patients; incompetent, flattering physician
- —御太鼓結びvery common way of tying a woman's kimono sash
- —かかり太鼓war drum
- —下鼓室動脈inferior tympanic artery
- —太鼓の達人Taiko Master (series of rhythm games created by Namco)
- —打ち出し太鼓drum signalling end of a performance
- —太鼓判を押すto give the stamp of approval
- —でんでん太鼓pellet drum (used as a children's toy); rattle drum
- —鼓弓kokyū; 3 or 4-stringed bowed Japanese musical instrument; any Asian string instrument played with a bow
- —鼓脹flatulence; meteorism; tympanites; bloat; bloating
- —立鼓hourglass-shaped object; sarugaku performance art using such an object
- —鞨鼓kakko; Japanese hourglass drum, played with sticks on both sides, traditionally used in gagaku
- —鼓騒motivating the troops on the battlefield with war drums and war cries; making an uproar
- —太鼓持professional jester; professional entertainer; comedian; buffoon; flatterer; sycophant; brown-noser