| 拨浪鼓 | bō lang gǔ | 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) | 
| 拨 | bō | 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 | 
| 浪 | làng | wave / breaker / unrestrained / dissipated / to stroll / to ramble | 
| 鼓 | gǔ | old variant of 鼓 | 
| 鼓 | gǔ | drum / CL:通,面 / to drum / to strike / to rouse / to bulge / to swell |