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拨浪鼓

bō lang gǔ

3-character word Traditional 撥浪鼓

What 拨浪鼓 means

1. 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)

The characters in 拨浪鼓

• 拨bōto push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate
• 浪làngwave; breaker; unrestrained
• 鼓gǔdrum; to drum; to strike

Sounds the same

Read bō lang gǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 波浪鼓variant of 拨浪鼓