Word Meaning 孟宗竹

もうそうちく mousouchiku

孟宗竹 is read as もうそうちく (mousouchiku) and means moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens).

Meaning

English

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

Reading

Kana

もうそうちく

Romaji

mousouchiku

Writing Variants

孟宗竹 もうそうだけ mousoudake

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 22 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Jinmeiyō Kanken 準1級 Rank 141187 Priority W

Related Vocabulary

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孟宗

もうそう

moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens)

孟宗の節

もうそうのふし

root of a moso bamboo

孟子

もうし

Mencius (one of the Four Books)

孟母断機の教え

もうぼだんきのおしえ

(the lesson that) one should not leave things unfinished

幹竹

からたけ

Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)

雄竹

おだけ

any of the larger varieties of bamboo

支那竹

しなちく

bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt

矢竹

やだけ

arrow bamboo (Pseudosasa japonica)

暖竹

だんちく

Arundo donax

竹

たけ

bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae)

爆竹

ばくちく

firecracker

青竹

あおだけ

green bamboo