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)