亀

See also 龜

Translingual

shinjitai	亀
simplified	龟
traditional	龜

Etymology

Simplified from 龜 in Japanese shinjitai.

Han character

亀 (radical 213 龜+0, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓田中山 (NWLU))

1. turtle or tortoise
2. cuckold

Related characters

• 龟

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 142, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 210
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 8 (in addendum), page 10, character 19
• Unihan data for U+4E80

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Japanese

Kanji

亀 (common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 龜)

1. tortoise, turtle

Readings

• Goon: き (ki), く (ku) (non-Jōyō reading), こん (kon) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: き (ki), きゅう (kyū) < きう (kiu) (non-Jōyō reading), きん (kin) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: かめ (kame)
• Nanori: ひさ (hisa), ひさし (hisashi)

Compounds

• 青海亀 (あおうみがめ, aoumigame)
• 赤海亀 (あかうみがめ, akaumigame)
• 石亀 (いしがめ, ishigame)
• 海亀 (うみがめ, umigame)
• 阿亀 (おかめ, okame)
• 亀卜 (かめうら, kameura or きぼく, kiboku)
• 亀鑑 (きかん, kikan)
• 亀甲 (きっこう, kikkō)
• 亀甲模様 (きっこうもよう, kikkōmoyō)
• 亀頭 (きとう, kitō)
• 亀裂 (きれつ, kiretsu)
• 銭亀 (ぜにがめ, zenigame)
• 出歯亀 (でばかめ, debagame)
• 金亀子
• 花亀虫
• 盲亀

Noun

亀 (hiragana かめ, romaji kame)

1. tortoise, turtle

Related terms

• 亀の甲
• 亀の子
• 亀の手

Phrase

• 盲亀浮木に値う (もうきふぼくにあう, mōki fubokuni au)

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Korean

Hanja

亀 (hangeul 귀, 균, revised gwi, gyun, McCune-Reischauer kwi, kyun)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

亀 (pinyin guī (gui1), Wade-Giles kuei¹)