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

  • 竹馬 【タケウマ】 stilts (for walking), hobby horse
  • 竹刀 【シナイ】 bamboo sword (for kendo), bamboo fencing stick, bamboo sword
  • 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

15 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
chopsticks
Kun:
はし
On:
チョチャク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2156 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 匕箸 【ヒチョ】 spoon and chopsticks

Kun reading compounds

  • 箸 【はし】 chopsticks
  • 箸洗い 【はしあらい】 simple and light soup taken between courses in a kaiseki meal, or during a formal tea ceremony
  • マイ箸 【マイばし】 one's own chopsticks, washable chopsticks carried in a case (used instead of disposable chopsticks)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu4
Korean:
jeo

Spanish

  • palillos (para comer o cocinar)

Portuguese

French

3422 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2381 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1932 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3359 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2363 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
26224X Morohashi
2708 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4301 New Nelson (John Haig)
2640 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1348 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6f9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-9 SKIP code
8860.4 Four corner code
8860.3 Four corner code
1-40-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7bb8 Unicode hex code