敲邊鼓 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 敲边鼓 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. qiāobiāngǔ ㄑㄧㄠ ㄅㄧㄢ ㄍㄨˇ 男 女 to back sb up to support sb in an argument (lit. to beat nearby drum) Character by character 敲(qiāo)hit 邊(biān)side 鼓(gǔ)drum A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT