たけ
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. bamboo shoot
2. inexperienced doctor; quack
when read as "たけのこ"
Kanji used
bamboo
child
Pitch accent
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 (animal); young woman; offshoot
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
similar things turning up one after another; (lit.) bamboo shoots after rain
people who partied flamboyantly in Harajuku, etc. in the 70s and 80s
barb fitting; barbed tubing connection
barb fitting; barbed tubing connection