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腰鼓

yāo gǔ

2-character word

What 腰鼓 means

1. waist drum
2. waist-drum dance (Han ethnic group folk dance)

The characters in 腰鼓

• 腰yāothe waist and lower back; (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food)…
• 鼓gǔdrum; to drum; to strike

Sounds the same

Read yāo gǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 腰骨lumbar vertebrae

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