竹 hanja, meaning bamboo, read 죽 (juk)
Reading
bamboo; flute; Kangxi radical 118
대 죽dae juk
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 대 (dae) is the Korean for bamboo, and 죽 (juk) is the reading. Say 대 죽 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- ⽵ 118
- Beyond radical
- 0
- Mandarin
- zhú
- Japanese on
- chiku
- Japanese kun
- take
Vocabulary
Words that use 竹
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
cracker, a firecracker
Character by character crackle + bamboo
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.