竹
zhú HSK5

bamboo

竹 zhú
bamboo noun
bamboo; a type of woody plant or the material obtained from it

这种纸是由山上的翠竹制成的。

zhè zhǒng zhǐ shì yóu shān​shàng de cuì​zhú zhì​chéng de.

This paper is made from green bamboo from the mountains.

radical 118 noun
the Kangxi radical 118 representing bamboo, often appearing as a top component

“笑”字带有竹字头。

“ xiào” zì dài​yǒu zhú​zì​tóu.

The character '笑' (laugh) contains the bamboo radical on top.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,588th most common 62.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,550th most common 7.92 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.35 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
29.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+7AF9

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)