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龜

龜 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

This stroke order diagram is drawn with 16 strokes; it can differ from the count above because the sources use slightly different glyph shapes.

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. （動物）かめ。また、その甲羅。古代、占卜に用いられた。
  2. 「皸」の同字。あかぎれ。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

象形。亀を横から見た形を象る。「カメ」を意味する漢語｛龜｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

turtle, tortoise

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • キ
  • キュウ
  • キン
Kun (native)
  • かめ
Nanori (used in names)
  • ひさし
Other languages
  • 拼音gui1
  • 拼音jun1
  • 拼音qiu1
  • 한글gwi
  • 한글gu
  • 한글gyun
  • Hán-ViệtQuy
  • Hán-ViệtCưu
  • Hán-ViệtQuân

Basics

Strokes
18 strokes
Radical
龜(かめ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+9F9C

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱丿⿻#⿰⿱⺕⺕⿼コ乂

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-2-16
Four Corner
2711.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
2n9.1