竹

See also ケ, and ⺮

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – two bamboo stalks, with leaves. Earlier forms resembled 个 + 个, current form resembles rather ケ+ケ.

竹
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

竹 (radical 118 竹+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹 (H), four-corner 8822₀)

1. bamboo
2. KangXi radical 118

References

• KangXi: page 877, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25841
• Dae Jaweon: page 1305, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2947, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7AF9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

竹 (Yale juk1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

竹 (POJ chuk, Guangdong tshuk⁷ [Meixian], chuk⁷ [Hailu, Kwangtung]; tsuk⁷, Hagfa Pinyim zug5)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

竹 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. bamboo

Readings

• Goon: ちく (chiku)
• Kan’on: ちく (chiku)
• Kun: たけ (take)

Compounds

• 竹蜻蛉 (たけとんぼ, taketonbo): a bamboo dragonfly/bamboo-copter; a toy
• 竹簡
• 竹馬
• 竹林
• 竹薮
• 竹刀
• 糸竹

Noun

竹 (hiragana たけ, romaji take)

1. bamboo
2. the middle of a 3-tier ranking system

Coordinate terms

• 松 (まつ, matsu) (“pine, the highest rank”)
• 梅 (うめ, ume) (“apricot, the lowest rank”)

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Korean

Hanja

竹
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 죽 (revised: juk, McCune-Reischauer: chuk, Yale: cwuk)

• Name (hangeul): 대()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

竹 (pinyin zhú (zhu2), Wade-Giles chu²)

Compounds

• 竹板
• 竹板书
• 竹编
• 竹帛
• 竹材
• 竹床
• 竹雕
• 竹筏
• 竹竿, 竹竿儿
• 竹简
• 竹节
• 竹刻
• 竹篮
• 竹篮打水一场空
• 竹楼
• 竹马, 竹马儿
• 竹排
• 竹器
• 竹筍
• 竹笋
• 竹筒倒豆子
• 竹叶青
• 竹纸
• 竹子
• 竹字头儿

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Middle Chinese

Han character

竹 (*djiuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

竹 (trúc)