竹たけの子こ
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. bamboo shoot
2. young, inexperienced doctor
Kanji used
bamboo
child
Pitch accent
た
けのこ
Composed of
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young woman; young (animal); offshoot
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
similar things turning up one after another; (lit.) bamboo shoots after rain
Takenoko Tribe; teenagers who dressed flamboyantly and danced in Harajuku, Tokyo, from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s
selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)
barb fitting; barbed tubing connection
barb fitting; barbed tubing connection
young, inexperienced doctor
takenoko nyokki; group game in which players put their hands together and try to raise them while saying "nyokki" without speaking over anyone else until only one player (the loser) remains
takenoko nyokki; group game in which players put their hands together and try to raise them while saying "nyokki" without speaking over anyone else until only one player (the loser) remains