タケ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of タケ – see the following entries.

【竹たけ】1 [noun] bamboo [noun] (nyōbō kotoba) a bamboo shoot [noun] a wind instrument made using bamboo [noun] a 家(か)紋(もん) (kamon, “family crest”) consisting of a bird on a bamboo tree and various bamboo rings [noun] (slang) a maidservant (due to being used as the stock name for a maidservant in novels of the early modern era) [noun] the middle of a 3-tier ranking system

【茸たけ】J [noun] (chiefly Kansai or in compounds) a mushroom [noun] (colloquial) the flesh of an animal

(This term, タケ (take), is the katakana spelling of the above terms.)