Character: 竹
Modern (Beijing) reading: zhú
Preclassic Old Chinese: truk
Classic Old Chinese: truk
Western Han Chinese: ṭǝuk
Eastern Han Chinese: ṭǝuk
Early Postclassic Chinese: ṭɨuk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṭuk
Late Postclassic Chinese: ṭuk
Middle Chinese: ṭük
English meaning : bamboo
Russian meaning[s]: 1) бамбук; 2) трубка; бамбуковые музыкальные инструменты; 3) дощечки для письма; анналы, записи; 4) Чжу (фамилия)
Comments: Used also for a homonymous (or identical?) *truk 'a k. of creeper'.
Radical: 118
Four-angle index: 2978
Karlgren code: 1019 a-b
Vietnamese reading: trúc
Shijing occurrences: 55.1, 55.3
