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筍たけのこ
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. bamboo shoot
2. inexperienced doctor; quack
when read as "たけのこ"
Alt. forms
タケノコ
55%
筍たけのこ
17%
たけのこ
16%
竹たけの子こ
9%
笋たけのこ
1%
Kanji used
筍
bamboo shoot
Pitch accent
た
けのこ
Used in: 131
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
similar things turning up one after another; (lit.) bamboo shoots after rain
horse botfly larva
selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)
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