Word Meaning 孟宗竹

もうそうだけ mousoudake

孟宗竹 is read as もうそうだけ (mousoudake) and means moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens).

Meaning

English

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

Reading

Kana

もうそうだけ

Romaji

mousoudake

Writing Variants

孟宗竹 もうそうちく mousouchiku

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 22 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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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

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

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

破竹

はちく

breaking bamboo

四方竹

しほうちく

Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo)