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  1. 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)

    trad. 撥浪鼓

Also written 撥浪鼓【bō lang gǔ】

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc, to dial, to allocate, to set aside (money), to poke (the fire), to pluck (a string instrument), to turn round, classifier: group, batch

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