龜

See also 亀, and 龟

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Stroke order (alternative)

shinjitai	亀
simplified	龟
traditional	龜

Etymology

Pictogram (象形)

			龜
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

龜 (radical 213 龜+0, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹月尸尸 (HBSS), 弓X山 (NXU), four-corner 2711₇)

1. turtle or tortoise
2. cuckold

Descendants

• 亀 龟

References

• KangXi: page 1538, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48847
• Dae Jaweon: page 2078, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4809, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9F9C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

龜 (simplified 龟, Yale gau1, gwai1 gwan1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

龜 (POJ kwui, Guangdong kui¹; kwi¹ [Meixian], kwui¹ [Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim gui1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

龜

Readings

• On: き (ki), きゅう (kyū), きん (kin)
• Kun: かめ (kame)

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Korean

Hanja

龜 (hangeul 구, 균, 귀, revised gu, gyun, gwi, McCune-Reischauer ku, kyun, kwi, Yale kwu, kyun, kwi)

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Mandarin

Alternative forms

• 龜
• 龜

Hanzi

龜 (simplified 龟, pinyin guī (gui1), qiū (qiu1), jūn (jun1), Wade-Giles kuei¹, ch'iu¹, chün¹)

Compounds

• 龜茲

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Vietnamese

Han character

龜 (qui, quân, quy)