bamboo / CL:棵[ke1],支[zhi1],根[gen1] / Kangxi radical 118

= 𠂉 + + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is weaving a bamboo basket (竹) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He is using a key (𠂉), a dinosaur bone (丨) and a crowbar (亅) as basis structure and connects the three stays by weaving soft bamboo (竹) around them.

竹 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
"vertical stroke with hook" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 6) / see also 豎鉤|竖钩[shu4 gou1]

Mnemonic symbol: 亅 looks like a crowbar. Zeus (ju) is bored and presses all the buttons next to the elevator kitchen's (e2) door with his crowbar (亅).
variant of 個|个[ge4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a hammer, since 亇 is a hammer in Korean. The crane clogged up the elevator's bathroom (e4) and Guy Fawkes (g) helps unclogging the toilet by hammering (亇) a crowbar (亅) into it.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

𠂉 = 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 𠂉 looks like a key.

Imagine a banana you can't open without putting a key into each of the holes of a flute which is painted on its peel.

Characters with 竹 as component

short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[Gui4 yang2]

= + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) constructed (筑) some tools just out of bamboo sticks (⺮) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The last thing he constructs for the day is a shed made out of bamboo sticks. He puts his tools inside and locks the shed with a padlock (巩).
to build / to construct / to ram / to hit / Taiwan pr. [zhu2]

= + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) constructed (筑) some tools just out of bamboo sticks (⺮) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The last thing he constructs for the day is a shed made out of bamboo sticks. He puts his tools inside and locks the shed with a padlock (巩).
five-string lute / Taiwan pr. [zhu2]

= + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) constructed (筑) some tools just out of bamboo sticks (⺮) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The last thing he constructs for the day is a shed made out of bamboo sticks. He puts his tools inside and locks the shed with a padlock (巩).
simple / uncomplicated / letter / to choose / to select / bamboo strips used for writing (old)

= + : Joan of Arc is working out inside of the anthill. She put up a changing cubicle and on top of it a bamboo stick so that she can practise pull ups. It's very easy for her to do 20 pull ups in a row.
to answer / to reply / to respond

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a hand held sonar.

Don Quixote uses some glue to glue a hand held sonar to a bamboo stick just inside the ashram's kitchen. Stupid thinks that the sonar is a camera and wants to shoot a selfie.
bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答[da2], used in 答應|答应[da1 ying5], 答理[da1 li5] etc
chopstick

= + : In the airplane's bathroom Karl Koala is rapidly manufacturing chopsticks out of a bamboo stick so that he may soon start eating eucalyptus leaves again.
to filter / to sift / to sieve

= + : One time in front of the airplane (ai1) Sherlock Holme's (sh) teacher (师) showed him how to filter (筛) urine into drinkable water using just a bamboo stick (⺮). That one was actually a prank to make Sherlock Holmes drink his own urine.
to laugh; to smile / to laugh at
laugh / smile / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : In the aorta's bathroom, Marie Curie tells Snow White a story how she once hoaxed the whole university into believing that her simple bamboo stick can be used as fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor. She can't stop laughing while she tells her story.

= + : This character just looks like a certain laughing cat: ⺮ are the eyes and 夭 looks like the snout.
old variant of 笑[xiao4]

= + : In the aorta's bathroom, Marie Curie tells Snow White a story how she once hoaxed the whole university into believing that her simple bamboo stick can be used as fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor. She can't stop laughing while she tells her story.

= + : This character just looks like a certain laughing cat: ⺮ are the eyes and 夭 looks like the snout.
guzheng or long zither / long zither with 13 to 16 strings, developed from guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times / Japanese koto
variant of 管[guan3]

= + : As a government offficial, Gitta Giraffe is checking the books of the anthill inside of it. She has to check many many folders, and to protect herself and her work, she's beating anyone who gets too close with a bamboo stick.

Words with 竹

oleander (Nerium indicum) / Taiwan pr. [jia4 zhu2 tao2]
like a hot knife through butter (idiom) / with irresistible force
see 胸有成竹[xiong1 you3 cheng2 zhu2]
Maizhokunggar county, Tibetan: Mal gro gung dkar rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[La1 sa4], Tibet
Dazhu county in Dazhou 達州|达州[Da2 zhou1], Sichuan
Dazhu county in Dazhou 達州|达州[Da2 zhou1], Sichuan
Maizhokunggar county, Tibetan: Mal gro gung dkar rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[La1 sa4], Tibet
see 毛竹[mao2 zhu2]
see 毛竹[mao2 zhu2]
lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana)

Sentences with 竹

竹 currently does not appear in any sentence.