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竹 kanji
bamboo
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
チク
Kun readings
たけ
Words with 竹
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —竹窓bamboo window; window with bamboo planted in front
- —竹紙thin paper made from bamboo fibre; paper-like skin inside a bamboo stalk
- —松竹梅pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping); high, middle and low (ranking); top, middle and bottom; upper, medium, lower; first, second and third (class)
- —夾竹桃oleander; Nerium oleander var. indicum; rosebay
- —石竹色light pink (color, colour)
- —竹輪麩flour paste cake in the form of a tube
- —支那竹bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt
- —棕櫚竹Rhapis humilis; rhapis
- —孟宗竹moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens); tall bamboo cultivated for its edible shoots
- —四方竹Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo); Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
- —蓬莱竹hedge bamboo (Bambusa multiplex); golden goddess bamboo
- —鳳凰竹Bambusa multiplex var. elegans (variety of hedge bamboo)
- —寒忌竹centipede plant (Homalocladium platycladum); tapeworm plant; ribbonbush
- —竹夫人bamboo wife; Dutch wife
- —金明竹Castillon bamboo (cultivar of Japanese timber bamboo, Phyllostachys bambusoides)
- —竹聯幇United Bamboo Gang (Taiwanese crime syndicate)
- —竹馬の友childhood friend; old playmate
- —竹節人参Japanese ginseng (Panax japonicus)
- —破竹の勢い(with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force
- —竹林の七賢Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians