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竹子

zhú zi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 棵、根

竹子 (zhú zi) means "bamboo". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 竹子 means

1. bamboo

The characters in 竹子

• 竹zhú(bound form) bamboo; Kangxi radical 118
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 花园里有竹子在生长。
  Huāyuán lǐ yǒu zhúzi zài shēngzhǎng.
  There's bamboo growing in the garden.

Where 竹子 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Nature, Plants & Agriculture (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
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