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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

打鼓

dǎgǔ

to beat a drum

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to beat a drum

02

to play a drum

03

(fig.) to feel nervous

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 打鼓 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 打鼓 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

她会打鼓。tā huì dǎ gǔ。

She can play the drum.

吉姆喜欢打鼓。jí mǔ xǐ huān dǎ gǔ。

Jim likes to play the drum.

天使弹琴,魔鬼打鼓。tiān shǐ tán qín, mó guǐ dǎ gǔ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 打鼓.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 打鼓.

Directly before

  • 会打鼓1
  • 喜欢打鼓1
  • 魔鬼打鼓1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 打鼓

What does 打鼓 mean in Chinese?

打鼓 (dǎgǔ) means to beat a drum.

How do you pronounce 打鼓?

打鼓 is pronounced dǎgǔ.

Is 打鼓 an HSK word?

打鼓 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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