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
- N2太鼓Populardrum
- —鼓動Popularbeat; palpitation; pulsation; throbbing
- —鼓舞Popularencouragement; inspiration; rousing; stirring up; raising (e.g. morale)
- —鼓膜Populareardrum; tympanic membrane
- —一鼓the first beat of the war drum
- —軍鼓war drum
- —鼓室tympanic cavity
- —鼓手drummer
- —鼓吹rousing (courage, morale, etc.); encouragement; advocacy; promotion (of a belief); encouragement; inspiring (someone with an idea)
- —鼓腸flatulence; meteorism; tympanites; bloat; bloating
- —鼓笛drum and fife
- —鼓腹happiness; contentment
- —旗鼓banner and drums; army
- —三鼓the three types of gagaku drums; third division of the night (approx. 11pm to 1am)
- —鉦鼓small gong (used in gagaku)
- —鼓すto beat (a drum); to pluck up courage
- —杖鼓janggu (Korean hourglass drum); janggo; changgo
- —羯鼓kakko; Japanese hourglass drum, played with sticks on both sides, traditionally used in gagaku
- —鼓索chorda tympani
- —鼓譟motivating the troops on the battlefield with war drums and war cries; making an uproar