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The kanji 鼓: meaning, readings and stroke order
鼓
- Meaning
- drum, encourage
- On reading
- コ ko
- Kun reading
- つづみ tsuzumi
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 鼓 drum
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- cái trống, cổ vũ (cổ)
- Japanese
- たいこ。はげます。
- Korean
- 북, 북돋우다 (고)
- Chinese
- 鼓、鼓舞
Readings, words and example sentences
コ ko · on reading
太鼓
taiko drum, big drum
祭りで 太鼓を たたきます。
People beat drums at the festival.
つづみ tsuzumi · kun reading · less common
鼓
tsuzumi (small hand drum)
しばいで 鼓の 音が します。
You can hear a hand drum in the play.
Practise writing 鼓 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 鼓 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 7 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.