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羯鼓

jié gǔ

2-character word

What 羯鼓 means

1. double-ended skin drum with a narrow waist

The characters in 羯鼓

• 羯jiéram, esp. gelded; to castrate; deer's skin
• 鼓gǔdrum; to drum; to strike

Words starting with 羯鼓

• 羯鼓催花jié gǔ cuī huādrumming to make apricots flower, cf joke by Tang Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, playing the drum…

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