In the Kangxi Dictionary, 953 characters (out of 49,030) are found under this radical.

竹 is also the 135th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 𥫗 being its associated indexing component.

As an independent sinogram 竹 is a Chinese character.

It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.

[1] It means bamboo or the middle of a 3-tier ranking system.