old variant of 鼓[gu3]
drum / CL:通[tong4],面[mian4] / to drum / to strike / to rouse / to bulge / to swell

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is beating her drums in the space station (Ø3). She is beating an archaic drum (壴) and a modern snare drum (鼓) using a twig (支).

鼓 character breakdown

surname Zhu
(archaic) drum

= + : Julian Giant Squid is making some experimental beat music in the space station's bathroom. He's beating a huge 壴-type drum with a cross and a can of beans.
surname Zhi
to support / to sustain / to erect / to raise / branch / division / to draw money / classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a tree branch. James II of England (zh) has to repair the hull of the space station. His tool is a big cross (十) with one end cushioned with a boxing glove (又), which he is to use as a hammer. As he is floating in front of the space station (Ø1), the only tool to support him is a wooden branch (支) so that he won't float away.

Characters with 鼓 as component

surname Dong

= + : Mnemonic symbol: udon noodles, 乌冬面.

The first signs of spring were visible in form of blossoms (⺀) appearing everywhere in front of the engine ((e)ng1), but then the winter (冬) came back and froze them. To keep warm, Doggy Dog (du) eats a hot soup with udon noodles (冬). Wearing high heels (夂) he also enjoys to keep moving and stomps on the frozen blossoms.
(onom.) beating a drum / rat-a-tat

= + : Mnemonic symbol: udon noodles, 乌冬面.

The first signs of spring were visible in form of blossoms (⺀) appearing everywhere in front of the engine ((e)ng1), but then the winter (冬) came back and froze them. To keep warm, Doggy Dog (du) eats a hot soup with udon noodles (冬). Wearing high heels (夂) he also enjoys to keep moving and stomps on the frozen blossoms.
blind / undiscerning
dropsical / swollen
hand drum used by peddlers
a drum-shaped rattle (used by peddlers or as a toy) / rattle-drum
large brass drum
drum carried on horseback
sound of drum
large drum
(onom.) the thump of a big drum

Words with 鼓

encouraging / heartening
lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom); fig. to cease / to give in
drum practice pad (music) / a practice drum (music)
round and bulging / rotund / protruding
to advocate vociferously
(old) musicians at a wedding cortege or funeral procession / (fig.) trumpeter of sb's praises / booster
Eustachian tube (linking the pharynx 咽[yan1] to the tympanic cavity 鼓室[gu3 shi4] of the middle ear) / auditory tube

Sentences with 鼓

鼓 currently does not appear in any sentence.