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竹

竹 is a Japanese kanji written with 6 strokes, listed here under the keyword “bamboo”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1007. It appears as a component in 44 other characters in this index.

Keyword
bamboo
RTK frame
1007
Strokes
6
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
チク
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
たけ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
бамбуковый
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
竹 bamboo

Decomposition

No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.

Characters that contain 竹

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