Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
bamboo
Kun:
たけ
On:
チク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
593 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 竹林 【チクリン】 bamboo thicket, bamboo grove
  • 竹馬 【タケウマ】 stilts (for walking), hobby horse
  • 爆竹 【バクチク】 firecracker
  • 破竹 【ハチク】 breaking bamboo

Kun reading compounds

  • 竹 【たけ】 bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae), middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
  • 竹馬 【たけうま】 stilts (for walking), hobby horse
  • 笛竹 【ふえたけ】 bamboo flute, bamboo for making flutes, wind and string instruments
  • 苦竹 【にがたけ】 Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides), giant timber bamboo, madake, Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)

Readings

Japanese names:
たか
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu2
Korean:
jug

Spanish

  • bambú

Portuguese

  • bambu

French

  • bambou
113 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
71 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
170 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
719 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3366 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
68 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
790 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
247 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
129 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
129 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
374 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1471 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
267 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
168 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
201 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
946 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25841 Morohashi
228 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4246 New Nelson (John Haig)
937 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1007 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
59 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2353 2001 Kanji
6f0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-3 SKIP code
8822.0 Four corner code
1-35-61 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7af9 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
spear, lance, javelin
Kun:
やり
On:
ソウショウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2261 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 槍騎兵 【ソウキヘイ】 lancer
  • 槍術 【ソウジュツ】 spearmanship
  • 聖槍 【セイソウ】 holy lance, sacred spear
  • 弓馬刀槍 【キュウバトウソウ】 archery, horsemanship, spearsmanship, and swordsmanship, martial arts in general

Kun reading compounds

  • 槍 【やり】 spear, lance, javelin, lance, jeering
  • 槍烏賊 【やりいか】 spear squid (Loligo bleekeri)
  • 長槍 【ながやり】 long spear, pike
  • 毛槍 【けやり】 keyari, long, feathered ornamental spear carried at the head of a daimyo's procession

Readings

Japanese names:
うつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qiang1
Korean:
chang, jaeng

Spanish

  • lanza
  • lanceta
  • arpón
  • jabalina

Portuguese

French

2342 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2100 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1329 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
966 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
15319 Morohashi
2822 New Nelson (John Haig)
2516 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2576 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a10.20 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-10 SKIP code
4896.7 Four corner code
1-33-68 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
69cd Unicode hex code