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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
- —竹林Popularbamboo thicket; bamboo grove
- —爆竹Popularfirecracker
- —竹材bamboo material
- —竹輪chikuwa; tube-shaped fish paste cake
- —糸竹(traditional Japanese) musical instruments
- —竹簡bamboo writing strip
- —破竹breaking bamboo
- —石竹China pink (species of flower, Dianthus chinensis)
- —寒竹marbled bamboo (Chimonobambusa marmorea)
- —黒竹black bamboo
- —脩竹tall bamboo
- —竹帛history
- —筮竹bamboo divination stick (used in I Ching divination)
- —唐竹Chinese temple bamboo (Sinobambusa tootsik); tootsik bamboo
- —暖竹Arundo donax (species of tall perennial cane)
- —方竹type of bamboo
- —法竹type of open-ended bamboo flute
- —竹糖Chinese sugarcane (Saccharum sinense) (used for making wasanbon)
- —竹蔗Chinese sugarcane (Saccharum sinense)
- —竹器bamboo ware