鼓

See also: 皼

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

鼓 (radical 207 鼓+0, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土廿十水 (GTJE), four-corner 4414₇, composition ⿰壴支)

1. drum
2. beat, top, strike

References

• KangXi: page 1526, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48330
• Dae Jaweon: page 2061, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4763, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9F13

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		鼓

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǔ (gu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kú
• Min Nan (POJ): kó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ku³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guu
    • IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gu²
    • Yale: gú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gu²
    • IPA ^(key): /kuː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kú
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ku³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kó͘
    • Tâi-lô: kó͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /kɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔ⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (鼓, reconstructed)
Character (鼓), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 公戸切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kuoX/	/kuoX/	/koX/	/kuoX/	/kɔX/	/kuX/	/koX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (鼓, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
鼓								gǔ								‹ kuX ›								/*[k]ˤaʔ/								drum (n.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
鼓					4337					鼓					魚					0					古					/*kʷaːʔ/					亦同皷

Compounds

• 煤氣鼓

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

鼓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: く (ku)
• Kan’on: こ (ko)
• Kun: つづみ (tsudumi)

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Korean

Hanja

鼓 (go) (hangeul 고, revised go (or gu, in the case of janggu), McCune-Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鼓 (cổ)

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