Radical
Strokes
6
Residual strokes
0
Mandarin
zhú
Teochew

Glyph

Radical
Residual strokes
0 strokes
Strokes
6 strokes
Mandarin
zhú

Definitions by reading

dêg4
Mandarin equivalent zhú
Regional readings
19th-century Fucheng dêg4 Chenghai dêg4 Jieyang dêg4 Raoping dêg4 Shantou dêg4
•常绿多年生植物。茎圆柱形,中空有节。可制器具,嫩芽叫竹笋,味美可吃
潮汕十八音字典(杨扬发) - 2001

GuangyunPhonological reconstruction

1
知母 三等 口 東韵 入声 張六切
Reconstruction:
Original

說文作竹,冬生草也,象形。下垂者菩箬也。史記曰:渭川千畮竹,其人與千戶侯等。亦姓,本姜姓,封爲孤竹君,至伯夷叔齊之後,以竹爲氏。今遼西孤竹城是。後漢有下邳相竹曾,張六切六。