日本語
Kanji
N1 11 strokes Grade 9 freq #1743

bamboo grass, (kokuji)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

bamboo take

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

lucky bamboo branch (sold during the Toka Ebisu festival in early January)
Takezasado
striated heron (Butorides striata); green-backed heron
Maianthemum yesoense (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)
Maianthemum japonicum (species of monocot)
dwarf bamboo (varieties that thrive in western Japan)
Pleioblastus chino (species of bamboo grass)
bamboo grass; bamboo

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)
field of bamboo grass
sasadango; rice dumpling made with mugwort and red bean paste steamed in a bamboo leaf
wavyleaf basketgrass (Oplismenus undulatifolius)
sasazushi (sushi wrapped in bamboo leaf)
Japanese lily (Lilium japonicum)
Spathiphyllum patinii (species of peace lily)
thicket of bamboo grass
Cephalanthera longibracteata (species of orchid)
Lanceolaria grayana (species of freshwater mussel)

Example sentences

Pandas feed on bamboo grass.