タケ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of タケ – see the following entries.
たけ1
[noun] bamboo
[noun] (nyōbō kotoba) a bamboo shoot
[noun] a wind instrument made using bamboo
[noun] a 家紋 (kamon, family crest) consisting of a bird on a bamboo tree and various bamboo rings
[noun] (slang) a maidservant (due to being used as the stock name for a maidservant in novels of the early modern era)
[noun] the middle of a 3-tier ranking system
たけJ
[noun] (chiefly Kansai or in compounds) a mushroom
[noun] (colloquial) the flesh of an animal
(This term, タケ (take), is the katakana spelling of the above terms.)