Memory phrase for the Kanji: 鼓

鼓

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Meaning drum

Pronunciation

KO
tsuzumi

Explanation

Left: drums 壴 (A twig 十 over bean 豆 which however is seen as the image of the drum.), right: twig 支 (twig 十, hand 又)- BETTER: top: two twigs 十十, below: two images of drums 豆,又

Mnemonic

The twigs beat on the two drums.

Radicals

壴	drum	Radical: tsuzumi
支	branch (of a tree)	The bottom shows one of the variants of “hand 又”, which holds a branch or twig 十.
豆	bean	The radical mame* is interpreted as showing a bean 一 that is in a pot 口 (with a stand).*

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Vocabulary

太鼓

たいこ

drum, tambourine

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