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    3. 竹の子生活

    竹の子生活

    竹たけの​子こ生せい活かつ

    selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

    NTNounDaily LifeKanji Vocab24 strokes

    タケノコ生活筍生活たけのこ生活

    たけのこせいかつ

    Noun

    1.
    selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

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    Characters that make up this word

    竹
    たけ…(2)
    bamboo
    Kanji
    子
    こ・-こ・ね…(9)
    child・sign of the rat・11PM-1AM・first sign of Chinese zodiac
    Kanji
    生
    い.きる・い.かす・い.ける・う.まれる・うま.れる・う.まれ…(39)
    life・genuine・birth
    Kanji
    活
    い.きる・い.かす・い.ける…(1)
    lively・resuscitation・being helped・living
    Kanji
    の
    no
    Kana
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