Translingual

Han character

亀 (radical 5 乙+10, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓田中山 (NWLU), four-corner 2771₆, composition ⿱⺈⿻昌乚 or ⿱⺈⿻日电)

1. turtle or tortoise
2. cuckold

Related characters

• 龟

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 142, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 210
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 8 (in addendum), page 10, character 19
• Unihan data for U+4E80

Chinese

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 龜)

1. tortoise, turtle

Readings

• Goon: き (ki), く (ku) (non-Jōyō reading), こん (kon) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: き (ki), きゅう (kyū), from きう (kiu) (non-Jōyō reading), きん (kin) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: かめ (kame)
• Nanori: ひさ (hisa), ひさし (hisashi)

Compounds

• 青海亀 (あおうみがめ) ‎(aōmigame)
• 赤海亀 (あかうみがめ) ‎(akaumigame)
• 石亀 (いしがめ) ‎(ishigame)
• 海亀 (うみがめ) ‎(umigame)
• 阿亀 (おかめ) ‎(okame)
• 亀卜 (かめうら) ‎(kameura), 亀卜 (きぼく) ‎(kiboku)
• 亀鑑 (きかん) ‎(kikan)
• 亀甲 (きっこう) ‎(kikkō)
• 亀甲模様 (きっこうもよう) ‎(kikkōmoyō)
• 亀頭 (きとう) ‎(kitō)
• 亀裂 (きれつ) ‎(kiretsu)
• 銭亀 (ぜにがめ) ‎(zenigame)
• 出歯亀 (でばかめ) ‎(debakame)
• 金亀子
• 花亀虫
• 盲亀

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) か​め [káꜜmè] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠me̞]

Noun

亀 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 龜, hiragana かめ, katakana カメ, romaji kame)

1. tortoise, turtle
   • 2007, 蓮実香佑 Hasumi Kōsuke, おとぎ話の生物学 The Biology of Fairy Tales, page 28

     休 (やす)んで負 (ま)けてしまったウサギと休 (やす)まず走 (はし)って勝利 (しょうり)したカメ。

     Yasunde makete shimatta usagi to yasumazu hashitte shōri shita kame.

     The tortoise that ran without resting and won, and the hare that rested and lost.

Related terms

• 亀の甲
• 亀の子
• 亀の手

Phrase

• 盲亀浮木 (もうきふぼく)に値 (あ)う ‎(mōki fuboku ni au)

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

亀 • ‎(gwi, gyun) (hangeul 귀, 균, revised gwi, gyun, McCune-Reischauer kwi, kyun)

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