竹（たけ）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: heiban (flat) — starts low, stays high, no drop
Meaning: bamboo
Example sentences
- 庭に細い竹が並んでいる。 — Slender bamboo stands lined up in the garden.
- 竹はまっすぐ高く伸びる。 — Bamboo grows straight up tall.
Idioms & proverbs containing “竹”
- 竹林の七賢 (ちくりんのしちけん) — Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians
- 竹に雀 (たけにすずめ) — match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; sparrow and bamboo (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting)
- 竹馬の友 (ちくばのとも) — childhood friend; old playmate
- 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); irresistible force
- 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
- 竹を割ったよう (たけをわったよう) — clear-cut and straightforward
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