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Mythic Mandarin

龟 (guī): meaning and stroke order

龟 (guī) means tortoise; turtle, (coll.) cuckold, variant of 皲, used in 龟兹.

龟

Simplified
龟
Traditional
龜
Pinyin
guī · jūn · qiū

Stroke order of 龟

龟

  • guī tortoise; turtle; (coll.) cuckold
  • jūn variant of 皸|皲[jun1]
  • qiū used in 龜茲|龟兹[Qiu1 ci2]
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 龜

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 龟

  1. guī Traditional 龜
    • tortoise; turtle
    • (coll.) cuckold
  2. jūn Traditional 龜
    • variant of 皸|皲[jun1]
  3. qiū Traditional 龜
    • used in 龜茲|龟兹[Qiu1 ci2]

Radical and structure

龟
Radical 龟 (Kangxi radical 213) in its simplified form · 7 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 龟

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).