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鼓
Radical 207 (U+2FCE)
鼓 (U+9F13) "drum"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	gǔ
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄨˇ
Wade–Giles:	ku3
Cantonese Yale:	gu2
Jyutping:	gu2
Japanese Kana:	コ, ク ko, ku つづみ tsuzumi
Sino-Korean:	고 go
Hán-Việt:	cổ
Names
Japanese name(s):	鼓 tsuzumi
Hangul:	북 buk
Stroke order animation

Radical 207 meaning "drum" (鼓部) is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 13 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 46 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Evolution

Ideogrammic compound: 壴 ("drum") + 支 ("hand holding drumstick").

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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

壴

Kangxi dictionary listed 壴 under 士+6. Compare 豆.

• 
  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Characters with Radical 207

strokes	character
+0	鼓 鼔
+5	鼕 鼖
+6	鼗
+8	鼘 鼙 鼚 鼛
+10	鼜
+11	鼝 鼞
+12	鼟

Main article: wikt:Wiktionary:Chinese radical index 鼓

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+9F13