龜

龜 (Kangxi radical 213, 龜+0, 18 strokes in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 16 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 竹月尸尸 (HBSS) or 弓難山 (NXU), four-corner 2711₇, composition ⿱⺈⿹⿷⿻冂⿰一⿺乚⺊⿼コ㐅𢑑(H) or ⿱⺈⿻⿻冂⿰一⿺乚⺊⿻コ⿴⿹𠃌⺕㐅(G) or ⿱丿⿻⿻冂⿰一⿺乚⺊⿻コ⿴⿹𠃌⺕㐅)

1. Kangxi radical #213, ⿔.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/龜
• 𡤞, 𪷾, 𤒅, 櫷, 𦫉, 𪛕, 𨷺, 鬮

• 亀 龟

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1537, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48847
• Dae Jaweon: page 2078, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4809, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9F9C

• Unihan data for U+F907

• Unihan data for U+F908

• Unihan data for U+FACE

Pictogram (象形): A drawing of a turtle seen from the side and from above (Bronze inscriptions).

Austroasiatic. Compare Mon ဂွိ (gwi, “soft-shell turtle”), Nyah Kur ทะวี่ʔ (tha wìiʼ, “soft-shell turtle”) (Schuessler, 2007).

"(Cantonese) signature"

Signatures are usually scribbled and difficult to recognize, making it resemble the character 龜, which is with many strokes.

"(Hong Kong Cantonese) police"

In the past, Hong Kong police uniforms were in dark green, similar to colour of turtles.

龜

1. turtle; tortoise (Classifier: 隻／只 c)

   • 何謂四靈？麟鳳龜龍，謂之四靈。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     何谓四灵？麟凤龟龙，谓之四灵。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE

     Héwèi sìlíng? Lín fèng guī lóng, wèi zhī sìlíng. [Pinyin]

     What are the four numinous animals? The lin, the feng, the tortoise, and the dragon; those are called the four numinous animals.

2. (figurative) cuckold
3. (Cantonese, humorous) signature (Classifier: 隻／只 c)

   畫隻龜／画只龟 [Cantonese]  ―  waak⁶ zek³ gwai¹ [Jyutping]  ―  (humorous) to sign (literally, “to draw a turtle”)

   潦隻龜／潦只龟 [Cantonese]  ―  liu² zek³ gwai¹ [Jyutping]  ―  (humorous) to sign (literally, “to doodle a turtle”)

4. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) police

• (tortoise):

• → Zhuang: gvi

龜

1. only used in 龜茲／龟兹 (Qiūcí)

龜

1. (of skin) to crack; to become chapped

   • 宋人有善為不龜手之藥者，世世以洴澼絖為事。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     宋人有善为不龟手之药者，世世以洴澼𬘢为事。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     Sòng rén yǒu shàn wéi bù jūnshǒu zhī yào zhě, shìshì yǐ píngpìkuàng wéi shì. [Pinyin]

     There was a man of Song who was skilful at making a salve for chapped hands; and (his family) for generations had made the bleaching of cocoon-silk their business.

• “龜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “龟”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 81.

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 亀)

1. Kyūjitai form of 亀

• Go-on: き (ki)^{←き (ki, historical)}
• Kan-on: き (ki)^{←き (ki, historical)}
• Kun: かめ (kame, 龜)

From Middle Chinese 龜 (MC kjuw), as in 龜茲 (Kyūji)

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 龜 (MC kwij).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [kɥi] ~ [ky]
• Phonetic hangul: [귀]

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龜 (eumhun 거북 귀 (geobuk gwi))

1. hanja form^? of 귀 (“tortoise; turtle”)

From Middle Chinese 龜 (MC kjuw).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ku]
• Phonetic hangul: [구]

龜 (eumhun 땅 이름 구 (ttang ireum gu))

1. hanja form^? of 구 (“used in placenames”)

From Middle Chinese 龜.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [kjun]
• Phonetic hangul: [균]

龜 (eumhun 터질 균 (teojil gyun))

1. hanja form^? of 균 (“crack”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

From Proto-Japonic *kamaCi.^[1]

龜 (kame₂) (kana かめ)

1. a tortoise, turtle
   • 711–712, Kojiki, middle volume (Yamasachihiko and Umisachihiko):

     ...乘_二龜甲_一爲_レ釣乍打羽擧來人遇_二于速吸門_一...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 720, Nihon Shoki:

     難波癬龜（倶毗柯梅）

     nanipa tapi₁kame₂

     Naniwa osteichthyan tortoise

2. a tortoise shell used in 亀卜 (kiboku, “tortoise-shell divination”)
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 16, poem 3811:

     ...千磐破神爾毛莫負卜部座龜毛莫燒曾戀之久爾...

     ...tipayaburu kami₂ ni mo na opose urape₂ mase kame₂ mo na yaki₁ so₂ ko₁pi₂siku ni...

     ...mighty gods that carry not the burden, do divination with the unburnt tortoise shell with longing...

• Japanese: 亀 (kame)

龜: Hán Nôm readings: qui, quân, quy

1. chữ Hán form of quy (“turtle”)