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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 拨浪鼓

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
拨浪鼓 bō lang gǔ - rattle drum; pellet drum – a hand drum with two pellets attached to strings on either side, mounted on a rod that is twirled to make the pellets strike the drum (used in ritual music, as a children's toy or as a street vendor's noisemaker)

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 42,105 66,610 66,578

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc
- to dial
- to allocate
- to set aside (money)
- to poke (the fire)
- to pluck (a string instrument)
- to turn round
- classifier: group, batch
làng- wave
- breaker
- unrestrained
- dissipated
- to stroll
- to ramble
- drum
- CL:通[tong4],面[mian4]
- to drum
- to strike
- to rouse
- to bulge
- to swell
- old variant of 鼓[gu3]

Other Words Containing 拨浪鼓

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
拨浪鼓 - - 42,105 66,610 66,578