Kanji: 竹

Words containing that kanji:

• 桟竹 - えつりだけ - sheathing (under thatched roofing) | decorative rafters (of alternating wood and bamboo)
• 棕櫚竹 - しゅろちく | シュロチク - Rhapis humilis/rhapis
• 暖竹 - ダンチク | だんちく - Arundo donax
• 幹竹割り - からたけわり - cutting straight down/cleaving (a person) in two
• 割り竹 - わりだけ - split bamboo
• 竿竹 | さお竹 - さおだけ - bamboo pole
• 破竹の勢い - はちくのいきおい - with great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick)
• 細小小竹 | 細小小笹 | いささ小笹 - いささおざさ - short bamboo/small bamboo
• 竹の皮 - たけのかわ - bamboo sheath/bamboo peel
• 根笹 | 千里竹 - ねざさ - dwarf bamboo (varieties that thrive in western Japan)
• 箭竹 | 矢竹 - やだけ - bamboo arrow shaft | arrow bamboo (Pseudosasa japonica)
• 竹島問題 - たけしまもんだい - Takeshima problem
• 竹取物語 - たけとりものがたり - Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)
• 煤竹 - すすたけ | すすだけ - soot-colored bamboo (coloured) | bamboo duster (with the leaves still attached at one end)
• 竹節虫 | 七節 - ななふし | ナナフシ - walking stick (any insect of order Phasmatodea)/walkingstick/stick insect/leaf insect
• 竹笠 - たけがさ - bamboo hat
• 松竹梅 - しょうちくばい - pine, bamboo and plum (together an auspicious grouping) | high, middle, and low ranking
• 真竹 - まだけ | マダケ - Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides)/giant timber bamboo/madake
• 淡竹 - はちく | ハチク - Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)
• 女子竹 - おなごだけ | オナゴダケ - Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
• 唐竹 - とうちく | トウチク - tootsik bamboo (Sinobambusa tootsik)
• 呉竹 - くれたけ | クレタケ - Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)
• 雌竹 | 女竹 - めだけ | メダケ - Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
• 河竹 | 川竹 - かわたけ - bamboo growing along a river bank | Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides)/giant timber bamboo/madake | Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii) | prostitute/the life of a prostitute
• 唐竹 | 漢竹 - からたけ | カラタケ - any species or variety of bamboo that originated in China
• 萎ゆ竹 | 弱竹 - なよたけ | ナヨタケ | なゆたけ | ナユタケ - Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii) | any thin, but flexible bamboo
• 幹竹 - からたけ | カラタケ - Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides)/giant timber bamboo/madake | Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)
• 苦竹 - にがたけ | くちく - Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides)/giant timber bamboo/madake | Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
• 篠竹 - すずたけ | スズタケ - Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan)
• 竹笛 - たけぶえ - flute constructed of bamboo
• 竹冠 - たけかんむり - kanji "bamboo" radical at top
• 竹垣 - たけがき - bamboo fence (hedge)
• 竹材 - ちくざい - bamboo material
• 竹刀 - しない - (bamboo) fencing stick
• 竹やぶ | 竹薮 - たけやぶ - bamboo grove
• 篠竹 - しのだけ - general term for bamboo(s)
• 竹のつえ | 竹の杖 - たけのつえ - bamboo rod (stick, pole)
• 竹細工 - たけざいく - bamboo work
• 竹槍 - たけやり | ちくそう - bamboo spear
• 竹馬の友 - ちくばのとも - childhood friend
• 竹蜻蛉 | 竹とんぼ - たけとんぼ - small wooden Japanese toy that flies when spun between the palms of one's hands
• 竹光 - たけみつ - bamboo sword
• 竹叢 | 篁 | 竹むら - たかむら - bamboo grove
• 竹馬 - たけうま | ちくば - (walk on) stilts/bamboo horse
• 竹輪 - ちくわ - tube-shaped fish-paste cake
• 竹 - たけ - bamboo | middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
• 竹串 - たけぐし - bamboo skewer
• 竹製 - たけせい - made of bamboo
• 竹筒 - たけづつ - bamboo pipe
• 竹林 - ちくりん | たけばやし - bamboo thicket
• 篠竹 | 笹竹 - ささたけ - small bamboo
• 竹節人参 - ちくせつにんじん - Japanese ginseng (Panax japonicus)
• 爆竹 - ばくちく - firecracker
• 筮竹 - ぜいちく - bamboo divination stick
• 打ち竹 - うちたけ - an antiquated lighter consisting of a tube of bamboo containing live coals (hidane)
• 雨後の竹の子 | 雨後の筍 - うごのたけのこ - similar things turning up one after another/lit: bamboo shoots after rain
• 夾竹桃 - きょうちくとう - oleander/Nerium oleander var. indicum/rosebay
• 妙竹林 | 妙ちくりん - みょうちくりん - weird/odd
• 竹かご | 竹籠 - たけかご - bamboo basket
• 竹の子 | 筍 - たけのこ - bamboo shoots
• 糸竹 - しちく - (traditional Japanese) musical instruments
• 竹簡 - ちくかん - bamboo writing strip
• 竹槍戦術 - たけやりせんじゅつ - tactics of fighting a technologically advanced adversary with primitive weapons/sole reliance on simple determination (naive spiritualism) in fighting an overwhelming foe
• 竹篦 | 竹箆 - しっぺい - bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness
• 群竹 - むらたけ - thick growth of bamboo
• 破竹 - はちく - breaking bamboo
• 竹竿 - たけざお - bamboo pole
• 竹縁 - たけえん - veranda with bamboo flooring
• 竹矢来 - たけやらい - bamboo enclosure
• しっぺ返し | 竹箆返し | 竹篦返し - しっぺがえし | しっぺいがえし - returning tit for tat/retaliating
• 石竹色 - せきちくいろ - light pink (color, colour)
• 石竹 - せきちく | セキチク - China pink (species of flower, Dianthus chinensis)
• 竹の園生 - たけのそのう - bamboo garden/the imperial family
• 竹簀 - たけす - bamboo screen or blind
• 竹箆 - たけべら - bamboo spatula
• 支那竹 - しなちく - bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt
• 火吹き竹 - ひふきだけ - bamboo blowpipe used to stimulate a fire
• 寒竹 - かんちく - kanchiku (bamboo)/Chimonobambusa marmorea
• 青竹 - あおだけ - green bamboo
• 黒竹 - くろちく - black bamboo
• 小竹 | 篠 | 笹 - ささ - bamboo grass
• 糸竹 - いとたけ - (musical) strings and bamboo
• 竹輪麩 - ちくわぶ - flour paste cake in the form of a tube
• 竹箒 | 高箒 - たけぼうき | たかぼうき - bamboo broom
• 脩竹 - しゅうちく - tall bamboo
• 木に竹を接ぐ - きにたけをつぐ - to sew a fox's skin to the lion's/to graft a bamboo shoot on a tree
• 竹の節 - たけのふし - node (joint) of a bamboo
• 若竹亭 - わかたけてい - the Wakatake Variety Theater
• 竹帛 - ちくはく - history