"Drum" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 gǔn lún roller / rotating dial / (computer mouse) scroll wheel / (road roller) drum
 gǔn tǒng roller / cylinder (machine part) / drum
 yuán tǒng circular cylinder / drum
 Tóng gǔ bronze drum / (Western-style) drum
 gǔ drum / CL:通[tong4],面[mian4] / to drum / to strike / to rouse / to bulge / to swell
 shí shǒu yú drum / croaker
 zhù (archaic) drum
 gǔ lóu a drum tower / Drum Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc
 zhāo lǎn to attract (customers) / to drum up (trade)
 gǔ shēng sound of a drum / drumbeat
 dǎ gǔ to beat a drum / to play a drum / (fig.) to feel nervous
 méng zài gǔ lǐ lit. kept inside a drum (idiom) / fig. completely in the dark
 dà gǔ bass drum
 gǔ diǎn drum beat / rhythm
退 dá tuì táng gǔ lit. to beat the return drum (idiom) / fig. to give up / to turn tail
退 dǎ tuì táng gǔ lit. to beat the return drum (idiom) / fig. to give up / to turn tail
 huā gǔ flower drum, a type of double-skinned Chinese drum / folk dance popular in provinces around the middle reaches of the Yangtze / (bicycle wheel) hub
 yāo gǔ waist drum / waist-drum dance (Han ethnic group folk dance)
 xiǎo gǔ snare drum
 jià zi gǔ drum kit
 jué shì gǔ drum kit (Tw)
 zhuàn gǔ rotary drum
 mù gǔ chén zhōng lit. evening drum, morning bell (idiom) / fig. Buddhist monastic practice / the passage of time in a disciplined existence
 chén zhōng mù gǔ lit. morning bell, evening drum, symbolizing monastic practice (idiom) / fig. encouragement to study or progress
 líng gǔ tambourine (musical instrument) / bell and drum
 dōng (onom.) beating a drum / rat-a-tat
 qiáo drum tower
 pí drum carried on horseback
 chún copper drum
 fén large brass drum
 léi gǔ míng jīn to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom) / fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
 jī gǔ míng jīn to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom) / fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
 fú gǔ xiāng yìng lit. the hammer fits the drum (idiom) / appropriate relation between the different parts / closely interrelated
 jié gǔ cuī huā drumming to make apricots flower, cf joke by Tang Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, playing the drum in apricot blossom
 pí miàn outer skin / surface / leather cover (of a book) / drum skin / leather upper (of a shoe)
 bǎn gǔ small drum for marking time
 chāng sound of drum
 è beat a drum / startle
 gāo large drum
 huáng music of bell and drum
 táo hand drum used by peddlers
 dōu lǎn to canvas (for customers) / to solicit / to advertise / to drum up / sales pitch / to take on (a task)
 yǎ gǔ drum practice pad (music) / a practice drum (music)
 dǎ pāi to beat time / to mark rhythm on drum or clapper boards
 gēng lóu watch tower / drum tower marking night watches
 gēng gǔ drum marking night watches / night watchman's clapper
 yuān yuān deep and still / sound of a drum
 gǔn zòu drum roll
 jié gǔ double-ended skin drum with a narrow waist
 gǔ pén lit. to drum on a bowl / refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] grieving for his lost wife / fig. grief for a lost wife
 gǔ diǎn zi drum beat / rhythm
  metal drum
  International Fibre Drum Institute
 nǎng shì róng qì bladder tank / collapsible bladder / bladder / flexible tank / flexitank / collapsible drum / blivet
  mechanical drum snatcher / mechanical drum grip
 yǎn bān nǐ shí shǒu yú redfish / red drum
 gǔ xíng léi drum mine
  International Confederation of Drum Manufacturers
 hōng to sigh / sound of a drum
 dòng milk / sound of a drum
 jī gǔ chuán huā beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten &ndash / when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)
𬭚 chún copper drum
 tǒng gǔ tom-tom drum (drum kit component)
 dāng miàn luó , duì miàn gǔ lit. gong facing gong, drum opposite drum (idiom) / fig. to come together to thrash out the issue face to face
 gǔ dǎ bèi sī drum and bass (music genre)
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