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龜

Simplified: 龟

On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1.

guī ㄍㄨㄟ

    • tortoise turtle
    • cuckold

      coll.

Other words read guī

In the same tone

  • 歸 guī return
  • 規 guī compass
  • 硅 guī silicon
  • 瑰 guī (semiprecious stone)
  • 圭 guī sundial

All 18 words read guī

gui with other tones

  • 鬼 guǐ ghost
  • 貴 guì expensive
  • 跪 guì kneel
  • 桂 guì cassia
  • 佹 guǐ perverse

All 46 words read gui in any tone

How 龜 is written

    部首 radical
    龜
    笔画 strokes
    17 The drawing takes 18 strokes, in another form of the character.
    结构 structure
    独体字

    龜 as a 部首

    龜 is a 部首 (bùshǒu), a radical. A Chinese dictionary files every character under one of them, and this one files 1 under 龜. Look a character up by the 龜 radical

    Words with 龜

    Starting with 龜

    • 龜茲 qiūcí Kucha, ancient Silk Road kingdom and Buddhist center on the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert (Han-Tang period), in present-day Aksu, Xinjiang
    • 龜兒子 guīérzi bastard
    • 龜甲 guījiǎ tortoise shell
    • 龜裂 jūnliè crack
    • 龜頭 guītóu glans penis

    All 23 words starting with 龜

    Ending with 龜

    • 烏龜 wūguī tortoise
    • 海龜 hǎiguī turtle
    • 金龜 jīnguī tortoise
    • 陸龜 lùguī tortoise
    • 忍者神龜 rěnzhěshénguī Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, US comic book series, first appeared in 1984, also films, video games etc

    All 15 words ending with 龜

    Containing 龜

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