龟 (龜) guī

1. guī noun turtle; tortoise
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature , Concept: Animal 动物
   Notes: (Guoyu '龜' n 1; Kroll 2015 '龜' 1, p. 146; Unihan '龜')
2. guī noun Kangxi radical 213
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Turtle (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '龜' n 3)
3. guī noun turtle shell money
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '龜' 3, pp. 146-147)
4. guī noun arched backbone of an animal
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '龜' 4, pp. 146-147)
5. jūn noun chapped skin
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As a variant of 皸 (Guoyu '龜' jūn; Kroll 2015 '龜' jūn, pp. 146-147)
6. qiū proper noun Kucha
   Domain: History 历史 , Concept: Place Name 地名
   Notes: See 龟茲 (Guoyu '龜' qiū; Kroll 2015 '龜' qiū, pp. 146-147)
7. guī noun cuckold
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Used as an insult (Guoyu '龜' n 2)
8. guī noun turtle shell
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '龜' 2, p. 146)

Contained in

• 乌龟(烏龜) tortoise ; a man whose wife is unfaithful
• 龟婆(龜婆) a madam in charge of a brothel
• 龟裂(龜裂) to crack; cracked; fissured; creviced; (of skin) chapped
• 龟笑鳖无尾(龜笑鱉無尾) a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail; the pot calling the kettle black
• 龟坼(龜坼) turtle shell cracks ; cracked like a turtle shell
• 龟板(龜板) tortoise plastron; turtle shell
• 龟壳花(龜殼花) Formosan pit viper
• 灼龟(灼龜) to divine by burning turtle shells
• 金龟子(金龜子) scarab beetle
• 龟趺(龜趺) pedestal in the form of a tortoise
• 龟公(龜公) pimp
• 龟甲宝螺(龜甲寶螺) Mauritius cowry; Mauritia mauritiana
• 龟儿子(龜兒子) bastard; son of a bitch
• 缩头乌龟(縮頭烏龜) a turtle that pulls its head in; coward; chicken
• 龟头(龜頭) head of a turtle; glans penis
• 粪金龟子(糞金龜子) dung beetle
• 草龟(草龜) Chinese pond turtle
• 海龟(海龜) turtle
• 督龟(督龜) to doze off (from Taiwanese 盹龜, Tai-lo pr. )
• 杠龟(槓龜) to lose one's shirt (gambling); to meet with failure; (Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. )
• 龟甲(龜甲) tortoise shell
• 龟缩(龜縮) to withdraw; to hole up
• 龟鑑(龜鑑) careful introspection
• 龟苓膏(龜苓膏) turtle jelly, medicine made with powdered turtle shell and herbs
• 龟友(龜友) turtle enthusiast
• 龟兹乐(龜茲樂) music of kucha
• 龟背竹(龜背竹) split-leaf philodendron; Monstera deliciosa
• 粪金龟(糞金龜) dung beetle
• 老鼠拉龟，无从下手(老鼠拉龜，無從下手) like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip; no clue where to start
• 忍者龟(忍者龜) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• 龟王斋(龜王齋) guiwang fasting
• 龟孙子(龜孫子) son of a bitch; bastard
• 金龟(金龜) Chinese pond turtle ; golden turtle insignia
• 隐龟(隱龜) Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus)
• 金龟婿(金龜婿) wealthy son-in-law; wealthy husband
• 嫩苗龟(嫩苗龜) Turtwig, Japanese comic character, turtle with seedling growing out of its head

Also contained in

龟山 、 忍者神龟 、 龟玆 、 龟兹 、 龟茲国 、 六龟 、 龟山乡 、 龟船 、 龟尾市 、 龟甲万 、 九尾龟 、 神龟 、 册府元龟 、 六龟乡 、 金龟车

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 《龜策列傳》 Biographies of Diviners Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 85
• 卷三百九十三 列傳第一百五十二 彭龜年 黃裳 羅點 黃度 周南 林大中 陳騤 黃黼 詹體仁 Volume 393 Biographies 152: Peng Guinian, Huang Chang, Luo Dian, Huang Du, Zhou Nan, Lin Dazhong, Chen Kui, Huang Fu, Zhan Tiren History of Song 宋史 — count: 44
• 卷11　志第6　禮儀六 Volume 11 Treatises 6: Rites 6 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 30
• 春官宗伯 第三 3. Office of Spring and Minister of Rites Rites of Zhou 周禮 — count: 25
• 卷四十二 列傳第二 劉穆之 王弘 Volume 42 Biographies 2: Liu Muzhi, Wang Hong Book of Song 宋書 — count: 25
• 卷二百〇六 志第一百五十九 藝文五 Volume 206 Treatises 159: Arts and Literature 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 24
• 卷八十八 西域傳 Volume 88: Treatise on the Western Regions Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 21
• 卷二十八 志第十八 符瑞中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Auspicious Signs 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 18
• 卷112下 靈徵志八下 Volume 112b Treatise 8: The Spiritual World 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 15
• 卷二十四下 食貨志 Volume 24b: Treatise on Trade 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 14

Collocations

• 龟曰 (龜曰) 史龜曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 7
• 龟策 (龜策) 龜策敝則埋之 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮上》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 1 — count: 6
• 作龟 (作龜) 作龜于禰宮 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《郊特牲》 The Single Victim at the Border Sacrifices — count: 6
• 龟筮 (龜筮) 龜筮協從 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 大禹謨 Yu Shu - Counsels of the Great Yu — count: 6
• 守龟 (守龜) 卜之以守龜 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 5
• 蓍龟 (蓍龜) 故先王秉蓍龜 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《禮運》 Ceremonial Usages; their Origins, Development, and Intention — count: 4
• 灵龟 (靈龜) 舍爾靈龜 — Book of Changes 易經, 頤 Yi — count: 4
• 宝龟 (寶龜) 寧王遺我大寶龜 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 大誥 Zhou Shu - Great Announcement — count: 4
• 龟阴 (龜陰) 龜陰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 4
• 龟兆 (龜兆) 指龟兆和卦兆 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang — count: 3