Illustration: At the edge of a tended bamboo grove behind a rural Japanese home, a gardener crouches beside a stout bamboo shoot emerging from the soil. Its pointed tip and tightly overlapping husks remain clearly visible, with tall jointed bamboo stalks growing directly behind it.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

たけのこ

takenoko

bamboo shoot

Example sentences

  1. 主おもに、新しんタケノコの収穫しゅうかくされる春はるに食しょくされる。

    It is eaten mainly in spring when fresh bamboo shoots are harvested.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. そのほか、鮭さけ、じゃこ、松茸まつたけ、筍たけのこなど旬しゅんのものが好このまれる傾向けいこうがある。

    In addition to the above, people tend to prefer okowa using seasonal foods such as salmon, young sardines, matsutake mushrooms, and bamboo sprouts.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 毎年春まいとしはるの到来とうらいを知しらせるニュースとして、タケノコの試ためし掘ほりがテレビなどのメディアで取とり上あげられる。

    As part of the news in the spring, the trial harvest of bamboo shoots is played up every year by media including TV programs.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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