Memory phrase for the character: 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 drumRadical: tsuzumi
支 branch (of a tree)The bottom shows one of the variants of “hand 又”, which holds a branch or twig 十.
豆 beanThe 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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