龟 · guī
turtle or tortoise; cuckold
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
turtle or tortoise; cuckold
- Mandarin
- guī
- Cantonese
- gwai1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+9F9F
- Radical
- 龟 · 213
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 0
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 龟
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
History & distinctions
Related forms
龜
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- guī
- kCantonese
- gwai1
- kDefinition
- turtle or tortoise; cuckold
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 213'.0
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+9F9C U+9F9F
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+9F9F
- kTGH
- 2013:808
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- guī 0418.060 · jūn 0624.020 · qiū 0939.100
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- guī 123.140 · jūn 189.210 · qiū 305.130
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- guī(11)