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Kanji for Bamboo
The kanji for “bamboo” is 竹, read chiku and written in 6 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
竹
bamboo
Bamboo; straight, flexible and resilient.
Bamboo bends in a storm but never breaks.
6 strokes On reading チク (chiku) Kun reading たけ (take) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: bamboo
Readings used for names on Nazuke: take, chiku
In Japan it appears in about 215 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
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