竹

Organization name

United Bamboo Gang (Taiwanese crime syndicate)

Company name

Takezasado

Historical term; Named after Harajuku clothing store Boutique Takenoko

Takenoko Tribe; teenagers who dressed flamboyantly and danced in Harajuku, Tokyo, from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s

Historical term

children's game of catching bamboo spatulas on the back of the hand

Rare term

Japanese ginseng (Panax japonicus)

bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

returning tit for tat; retaliating

firecracker

Idiomatic expression

(with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force

bamboo shoot

Abbreviation

young, inexperienced doctor

Archaic

Chinese bamboo; bamboo imported from China (often used to make flutes)

唐竹 only

descending vertical sword attack (in kendo, etc.)

green bamboo

Slang

weird; odd

breaking bamboo

pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping)

From 松 down to 梅

high, middle and low (ranking); top, middle and bottom; upper, medium, lower; first, second and third (class)

walking stick (any insect of order Phasmatodea); walkingstick; stick insect; leaf insect

bamboo divination stick

oleander; Nerium oleander var. indicum; rosebay

moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens); tall bamboo cultivated for its edible shoots

bamboo grass; bamboo

Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)

similar things turning up one after another; bamboo shoots after rain

Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)

soot-colored bamboo (coloured)

bamboo duster (with the leaves still attached at one end)