笹

Meaning

笹 refers specifically to bamboo grass, a type of small, leafy bamboo. It is a kokuji, a kanji created in Japan, and its meaning is tied to this plant.

• 笹ささ

  bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

• 笹原ささはら

  field of bamboo grass

• いささ小笹いささおざさ

  short bamboo; small bamboo

• 尖り笹の葉貝とんがりささのはがい

  Lanceolaria grayana (species of freshwater mussel)

• 広葉雪笹ひろはゆきざさ

  Maianthemum yesoense (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)

• 東根笹あずまねざさ

  Pleioblastus chino (species of bamboo grass)

• 根笹ねざさ

  dwarf bamboo (varieties that thrive in western Japan)

• 熊笹くまざさ

  kuma bamboo grass (Sasa veitchii); Veitch's bamboo

• 福笹ふくざさ

  lucky bamboo branch (sold during the Toka Ebisu festival in early January)

• 竹笹堂たけざさどう

  Takezasado

• 笹がきささがき

  cutting (vegetables) into long, thin shavings; shaving into slivers; shavings

• 笹団扇ささうちわ

  Spathiphyllum patinii (species of peace lily)

• 笹寿司ささずし

  sasazushi (sushi wrapped in bamboo leaf)

• 笹牛の舌ささうしのした

  bamboo sole (Heteromycteris japonica)

• 笹百合ささゆり

  Japanese lily (Lilium japonicum)

• 笹竹ささたけ

  small bamboo

• 笹舟ささぶね

  toy bamboo-leaf boat

• 笹葉銀蘭ささばぎんらん

  Cephalanthera longibracteata (species of orchid)

• 笹藪ささやぶ

  thicket of bamboo grass

• 笹蜘蛛ささぐも

  Oxyopes sertatus (species of lynx spider)

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