击鼓传花 in English ji1 gu3 chuan2 hua1 Meaning

Meanings

  • beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine and so on)

Simplified Characters

击 鼓 传 花

Traditional Characters

擊 鼓 傳 花

Pinyin

ji1 gu3 chuan2 hua1

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

击ji1to hit 鼓gu3old variant of 鼓[gu3] 传chuan2to pass on 花hua1surname Hua