亀

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See also: 龜
亀 U+4E80, 亀
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Translingual

Stroke order
Traditional 龜
Shinjitai 亀
Simplified 龟

Glyph origin

Variant of 龜, simplified from 龜. The modern Japanese usage is of reform (shinjitai) nature.

Han character

亀 (Kangxi radical 213, 亀+0, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓田中山 (NWLU), four-corner 27716, composition ⿻龟日)

Derived Characters

References

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

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 亀 – see 龜 (“turtle; tortoise; cuckold; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 龜).

Japanese

Shinjitai

亀

Kyūjitai

龜

Kanji

亀

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

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
亀
かめ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
龜 (kyūjitai)
亀 (kame): a turtle.

⟨kame2⟩ → */kaməɨ/ → /kame/

From Old Japanese 龜 (kame2). First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.

Pronunciation

Noun

亀(かめ) or 亀(カメ) • (kame) 

  1. a tortoise or turtle (land or marine reptile with a shell)
    • 2007, Kōsuke Hasumi, 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 ran without resting and won, and the hare rested and lost.
  2. (by extension, figurative, as turtles are thought to be good drinkers) a drunkard
  3. a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various designs of tortoises
  4. (figurative) sluggishness; also, such a person
  5. a shrugger
  6. (slang, as it resembles a turtle's neck) a penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:陰茎
Usage notes
  • As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カメ.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Idioms
Proverbs

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
亀
き
Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
龜 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 龜 (MC kwij).

Affix

亀(き) • (ki) 

  1. tortoise, turtle
  2. tortoise shell used in divination
Derived terms
Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ^ “亀”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. a turtle's or tortoise's shell
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