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战鼓
zhàn​gǔ

war drum

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
战鼓 戰鼓 zhàn​gǔ
war drum
a drum used in ancient times to boost morale or signal commands to troops
call to action
a metaphor for a rallying cry or a call to arms

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.360 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
5.06 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 面 miàn

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)