鼓

old variant of 鼓[gu3]

drum / CL:通[tong4],面[mian4] / to drum / to strike / to rouse / to bulge / to swell

surname Zhu

(archaic) drum

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

encouraging / heartening

in a spurt of energy

lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom); fig. to cease / to give in

Eustachian tube (linking the pharynx 咽[yan1] to the tympanic cavity 鼓室[gu3 shi4] of the middle ear) / auditory tube

drum practice pad (music) / a practice drum (music)

tom-tom (drum)

round and bulging / rotund / protruding

beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)

to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back

to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)

discouraging / disheartening

(old) musicians at a wedding cortege or funeral procession / (fig.) trumpeter of sb's praises / booster