Word and Radical Components of 鼓手

The Chinese word 鼓手 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
鼓手	gǔshǒu	1. n. drummer

鼓手 ⇨ 鼓 + 手

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
鼓	gǔ	1. (musical instrument) drum
		鼓手 - drummer
		2. to drum; to beat a drum
		3. (literary) to play; to perform; to sound (a musical instrument)
		4. to beat; to clap
		鼓掌 - to clap hands
		5. to incite; to encourage
		鼓勵 - to encourage
		6. to protrude; to bulge
		7. (attention, zh, also "drum set" (classifier 套?))
手	shǒu	1. hand
		2. expert; master
		高手 - master
		3. -ist; -er
		歌手 - singer
		4. convenient; handy; portable
		手機 - mobile phone
		手冊 - handbook
		5. handwritten
		6. (Min Nan) luck in gambling
		7. (Mainland China Hokkien)
		8. (Taiwanese Hokkien) hidden part (general)
		9. (finance)
		10. usage. In many varieties of Chinese south of the Yangtze River, 手 refers to the arm and hand collectively.

鼓 ⇨ 壴 + 支

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
壴	zhù	1. (obsolete) drum
		2. Variant of 鼓
		3. Variant of 臌
支	zhī	1. to support; to bear; to sustain
		2. to disburse; to pay; to defray
		3. to prop up; to put up
		4. to send away; to put off somebody
		5. branch; limb; offshoot; subdivision
		(Alternative form 枝)
		(Alternative form 枝)
		唱支歌嚟聽下haa5 吖！ - Sing a song for us!
		6. (now usually derogatory and offensive) Short for 支那 China
		印支 - Indochina
		日滿支親善 - friendship among Japan, Manchuria and China
		支語警察 - (Taiwan, Internet slang) people who like to correct or criticize the use of Mainland terms, lit=Chink language police
		7. (telegraphy) the fourth day of a month
		8. Variant of 丈

壴 ⇨ 十 + 豆

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
十	shí	1. ten
		2. (figurative) topmost; utmost
		十分 - very
		十全十美 - perfect
豆	dòu	1. pod-bearing plant or its seeds; bean; pea
		綠豆 - mung bean
		蠶豆 - fava bean
		豌豆 - pea
		2. bean-shaped object
		咖啡豆 - coffee bean
		3. (historical) stemmed shallow bowl on a round base, often with a lid and sometimes with handles, initially earthenware and used as a food container, later also made of wood or bronze and used to hold m