拨浪鼓
Traditional form:
撥浪鼓
Pinyin (reading):
bōlanggǔ
Definitions:
- 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)
Characters:
- 拨 - to stir, to move, to distribute, to allocate
- 浪 - breaker, wave; reckless, wasteful
- 鼓 - drum; to beat, to strike; to rouse
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