Word Meaning 竹林

ちくりん chikurin

竹林 is read as ちくりん (chikurin) and means bamboo thicket.

Meaning

English

  1. bamboo thicket
  2. bamboo grove

Reading

Kana

ちくりん

Romaji

chikurin

Writing Variants

  • 竹林 たけばやし takebayashi

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 14 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 1 Kanken 10級 Rank 1313 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

竹林七賢

ちくりんのしちけん

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

妙竹林

みょうちくりん

weird

たけ

bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae)

竹馬

ちくば

hobby horse

竹の子

たけのこ

bamboo shoot

竹細工

たけざいく

bamboo work

竹島問題

たけしまもんだい

Liancourt Rocks dispute (territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea)

竹取物語

たけとりものがたり

Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)

竹夫人

ちくふじん

bamboo wife

竹中工務店

たけなかこうむてん

Takenaka Corporation

はやし

bunch (of something)

Example Sentences

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Pandas live in bamboo thickets.

Pandas live in bamboo groves.

In spring, the bamboo grove outside Hsinchu City is especially green.

The path stretching from that house to the bamboo thicket was laid with stone paving.