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Mythic Mandarin

乌龟 (wū guī): meaning and stroke order

乌龟 (wū guī) means tortoise, cuckold.

乌龟

Simplified
乌龟
Traditional
烏龜
Pinyin
wū guī

Stroke order of 乌龟

乌

  • Wū abbr. for country names that begin with 烏|乌[wu1]: Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰[Wu1 ke4 lan2], Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦|乌兹别克斯坦[Wu1 zi1 bie2 ke4 si1 tan3] etc; surname Wu
  • wū crow; black
  • wù used in 烏拉|乌拉[wu4 la5]; used in 烏拉草|乌拉草[wu4 la5 cao3]
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 烏

Stroke by stroke

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 乌龟

  1. wū guī Traditional 烏龜
    • tortoise
    • cuckold

Radicals of the characters

乌
Radical 丿 (Kangxi radical 4) · 4 strokes
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.

乌龟 in our stories

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  • 惠子做过魏国的宰相，喜欢讲逻辑，什么事都要问个为什么；庄子却宁可当一只在泥里自由爬的乌龟，也不愿意做官。

    Huìzǐ zuò guò Wèiguó de zǎixiàng xǐhuan jiǎng luójí shénme shì dōu yào wèn gè wèishénme Zhuāngzǐ què nìngkě dāng yì zhī zài ní lǐ zìyóu pá de wūguī yě bú yuànyì zuòguān

    Huizi had been chancellor of Wei and loved logic; he had to ask why about everything. Zhuangzi, by contrast, would rather be a tortoise crawling freely in the mud than become an official.

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 乌龟

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).