呉竹: henon bamboo, a form of Phyllostachys nigra (black bamboo)

imperative of 呉れる (kureru, “to give to me, to do for me”)

Expresses the meaning that someone does something for me. / Expresses a request or desire for the other person to do something.

summer / Xia dynasty

a female given name / a surname

(Buddhism) summer according to the lunisolar calendar; the ninety days starting from the sixteenth day of the fourth month until the fifteenth day of the seventh month

the Xia dynasty (first dynasty of China) / Short for 大夏 (Daika): Xia, one of the Sixteen Kingdoms / Short for 西夏 (Seika): Western Xia, an empire during the Song dynasty / a surname

intense heat; hottest period in summer

beating the heat

midday heat in summer