鼓
gǔgū HSK5

drum

鼓 gǔ frequency
variant 皷
to rouse verbnoun
to rouse; to incite; to encourage; to stimulate
to beat verb
to beat a drum; to play certain musical instruments by plucking or striking
drum noun
drum; any drum-shaped object

想象一下，敲一面鼓的时候会发生什么。

xiǎng​xiàng yī​xià, qiāo yī​miàn gǔ de shí​hou huì fā​shēng shén​me.

Imagine what happens when you beat a drum.

to bulge adjectiveparticle
to bulge; to swell; to stick out
鼓 gǔ
[watch]
used to indicate the watches of the night in ancient times; equivalent to 更 gēng
surname
a Chinese surname
to fan
to blow (with bellows, etc.); to fan; to flap (wings)
鼓 gū
[bound]
used in 胖鼓鼓 pàng​gū​gū

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,123rd most common 129.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,312th most common 58.2 per million appears in 25% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
12.2 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
15.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+9F13

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)