Illustration: On a Japanese apartment balcony, a child gently steadies the long stem of a potted sunflower between two fingertips while an adult attaches it loosely to a support cane. The flower head bends above them, and several leaves visibly branch from the uninterrupted stalk.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

茎くき

kuki

stem, stalk

Example sentences

バラは茎くきに刺とげがある。
A rose has thorns on its stem.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
台風たいふうの日ひは茎くきが折おれる危険性きけんせいがあるので補強ほきょうする必要ひつようがあります。
On days where there’s a typhoon, there’s a risk the stalks will break, so they must be reinforced.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
特有とくゆうの香かおりを持もつ葉はと茎くきを食用しょくようとする。
The leaves and stems with particular aroma are eaten.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 茎

茎stalk; stemOnケイ・キョウKunくき

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