| 鼓 | gǔ | convex; drum; to rouse; to beat; CL:通,面 |
| 鼓励 | gǔ lì | to encourage |
| 鼓舞 | gǔ wǔ | heartening (news); boost (morale); CL:个 |
| 鼓吹 | gǔ chuī | to agitate for; to enthusiastically promote |
| 鼓动 | gǔ dòng | to agitate; to arouse; to instigate; to encite |
| 鼓风机 | gǔ fēng jī | bellows; ventilator; air blower |
| 鼓掌 | gǔ zhǎng | to applaud; to clap |
| 鼓风 | gǔ fēng | a forced draft (of wind, for smelting metal); blast (in blast furnace); bellows; to draw air using bellows |
| 鼓风炉 | gǔ fēng lú | a blast furnace (in modern times); a draft assisted furnace for smelting metals |
| 鼓噪 | gǔ zào | din |
| 鼓楼 | gǔ lóu | a drum tower; Drum Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc |
| 鼓膜 | gǔ mó | eardrum; tympanum (of the middle ear); tympanyic membrane |
| 鼓吹者 | gǔ chuī zhě | advocate |
| 鼓室 | gǔ shì | tympanic cavity (of the middle ear) |
| 鼓山 | Gǔ shān | Gushan or Kushan district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市, south Taiwan |
| 鼓山区 | Gǔ shān qū | Gushan or Kushan district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市, south Taiwan |
| 鼓手 | gǔ shǒu | drummer |
| 鼓板 | gǔ bǎn | clapper-board |
| 鼓楼区 | Gǔ lóu qū | Drumtower city district (various); Gulou district of Nanjing City 南京市, Jiangsu; Gulou or Drumtower district of Fuzhou city 福州市, Fujian |
| 鼓浪屿 | Gǔ làng yǔ | Gulangyu, scenic island off Xiamen 厦门 |
| 鼓盆 | gǔ pén | lit. to drum on a bowl; refers to Zhuangzi 庄子 grieving for his lost wife; fig. grief for a lost wife |
| 鼓盆之戚 | gǔ pén zhī qī | drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 庄子 grieving for his lost wife); fig. grief for a lost wife |
| 鼓眼睛 | gǔ yǎn jīng | protruding eyes |
| 鼓箧 | gǔ qiè | beginning-school ceremony (old usage); classical learning |
| 鼓声 | gǔ shēng | sound of a drum; drumbeat |
| 鼓起 | gǔ qǐ | to drum up; to call up; to muster; to summon up (courage etc); to stimulate |
| 鼓起勇气 | gǔ qǐ yǒng qì | to take courage |
| 鼓点 | gǔ diǎn | drum beat; rhythm |
| 鼓点子 | gǔ diǎn zi | drum beat; rhythm |
| 鼓鼓 | gǔ gǔ | bulging; bursting |
| 鼓鼓囊囊 | gǔ gu nāng nāng | full and bulging (of a pocket, pouch etc) |
