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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		竹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhú (zhu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chuk
• Min Nan (POJ): tik / tiok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhú
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zuk¹
    • Yale: jūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chuk
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡suk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tik / tiok
    • Tâi-lô: tik / tiok
    • IPA (Taipei): /tik̚³²/, /tiɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tik̚³²/, /tiɔk̚³²/
  • Note: tik - vernacular, tiok - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (竹, reconstructed)
Character (竹), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 知 (9) Final: 屋 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 張六切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʈɨuk̚/	/ȶi̯uk̚/	/ȶiuk̚/	/ʈiuk̚/	/ʈuwk̚/	/ȶĭuk̚/	/ȶiuk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (竹, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
竹								zhú								‹ trjuwk ›								/*truk/								bamboo
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
竹					17588					竹					覺					1					竹					/*tuɡ/

Noun

竹 (classifier 课, 支, 根)

1. bamboo

   竹子

Compounds

Derived terms

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

References

• "竹" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-18.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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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
• 松竹梅 (しょうちくばい, shōchikubai): An arrangement of pines (松, matsu), bamboo (竹, take), and plum blossoms (梅, ume).
• 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 (juk)
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 대()

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Vietnamese

Han character

竹 (trúc)

1. (Sino-Vietnamese) bamboo
2. any bamboo species of phyllostachys