Meanings

Drum, Beat, Rouse, Muster

Radicals

鼓

Decomposition

⿰壴支

Etymology

Pictophonetic: drum

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 13

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical right-to-left

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 vertical bottom-to-top

5 corner bottom-to-top

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 dot bottom-to-top

8 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 rising left-to-right

10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

11 vertical right-to-left

12 corner top-to-bottom

13 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

コ ko

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

つづみ tsuzumi

Words Using This Kanji

72 words total

Other (12 words)

ninaidaiko

tsuri-daiko

zenidaiko

temple tower housing a drum for marking the passing of time

押し太鼓おしだいこ

war drum

かかり太鼓かかりだいこ

war drum

でんでん太鼓でんでんだいこ

pellet drum (used as a children's toy)

初鼓はつづつみ

traditional toy rattle drum from Kagoshima

鐘鼓しょうこ

bells and drums (for music or signals)

下鼓室動脈かこしつどうみゃく

inferior tympanic artery

太鼓の達人たいこのたつじん

Taiko Master (series of rhythm games created by Namco)

一鼓いっこ

the first beat of the war drum

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