龟 (龜)
guī
Pinyin

Definition

龟 (龜)
 - 
guī
  1. tortoise
  2. turtle

Character Decomposition

Compounds (4)

龟
guī
  1. 1 tortoise
  2. 2 turtle
龝
qiū
  1. 1 old variant of 秋[qiū]
龟
guī
  1. 1 tortoise
  2. 2 turtle
阄
jiū
  1. 1 lots (to be drawn)
  2. 2 lot (in a game of chance)

Related Words (20)

海龟
hǎi guī
  1. 1 turtle
  2. 2 Internet slang for 海歸|海归[hǎi guī]
乌龟
wū guī
  1. 1 tortoise
  2. 2 cuckold
金龟
jīn guī
  1. 1 tortoise
  2. 2 scarab beetle
金龟婿
jīn guī xù
  1. 1 wealthy son-in-law
  2. 2 wealthy husband
金龟子
jīn guī zǐ
  1. 1 scarab (Scarabeus sacer)
  2. 2 beetle

Idioms (2)

老鼠拉龟，无从下手
lǎo shǔ lā guī , wú cóng xià shǒu
  1. 1 like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom)
  2. 2 no clue where to start
龟笑鳖无尾
guī xiào biē wú wěi
  1. 1 lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the pot calling the kettle black

Sample Sentences

就是啊，当然啦，你丰满的胸部大概给你增加了不少实际的重量，所以肩膀一放松就含胸了，这一含胸连带着就驼背了，一驼背脖子就前倾了，不是我打击你啊，这脖子一前倾就像缩头乌龟一样了。
jiùshì ā ，dāngrán la ，nǐ fēngmǎn de xiōngbù dàgài gěi nǐ zēngjiā le bùshǎo shíjì de zhòngliàng ，suǒyǐ jiānbǎng yī fàngsōng jiù hánxiōng le ，zhè yī hánxiōng liándài zhe jiù tuóbèi le ，yī tuóbèi bózi jiù qiánqīng le ，bùshì wǒ dǎjī nǐ ā ，zhè bózi yī qiánqīng jiù xiàng suōtóu wūguī yīyàng le 。
That's it. Of course. Your ample bosom probably adds some actual weight to you, so as soon as you relax your shoulders, it sucks your breasts in a bit. You holding your breasts in leads to you stooping. When you stoop your neck hunches forward. I'm not attacking you, but the way your neck hunches over makes you look like a turtle with its head in its shell.
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啧！那是因为你虔诚！你怎么不在上面写个“龟”字呢？
ze ！nà shì yīnwèi nǐ qiánchéng ！nǐ zěnme bù zài shàngmian xiě gè “guī ”zì ne ？
Tut tut! That's because you believe in it so much! Why don't you just write the Chinese character for turtle on it as a talisman while you're at it?
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你踩乌龟的技巧很好
nǐ cǎi wūguī de jìqiǎo hěn hǎo
Your ability to jump on Super Mario turtles is beyond compare.
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可是，她还是不放心，又从东海捉来一只万年的巨龟，斩下它的四足，把它们用作擎天柱，分别竖在大地的四角，支撑住了天地的四方。
kěshì ，tā háishì bù fàngxīn ，yòu cóng Dōnghǎi zhuō lái yī zhī wànnián de jùguī ，zhǎn xià tā de sìzú ，bǎ tāmen yòngzuò qíngtiānzhù ，fēnbié shù zài dàdì de sì jiǎo ，zhīchēng zhù le tiāndì de sì fāng 。
But she still wasn't at ease. She then took a 10,000 year-old tortoise from the East China Sea and chopped off its four legs and used them as pillars for the sky. She placed them at the four corners of the world so as to stabilize all of Heaven.
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哎！它们又继续往前游，看见了一只乌龟。
āi ！tāmen yòu jìxù wǎng qián yóu ，kànjiàn le yī zhī wūguī 。
Agh! They continued to swim forward and saw a turtle.
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乌龟正好有四条腿。
wūguī zhènghǎo yǒu sì tiáo tuǐ 。
The turtle had exactly four legs.
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乌龟说：“你们的妈妈穿着绿衣服，会呱呱呱叫。”
wūguī shuō ：“nǐmen de māma chuān zhe lǜ yīfu ，huì guāguāguā jiào 。”
The turtle said, "Your mom is wearing green clothes and goes 'ribbit ribbit'."
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可能你习惯了，觉得繁体表意清楚些。看繁体我没什么问题，要我写就玩儿完了。像“龟”这种字就别提了，差不多有二十笔，我可不想画一只大乌龟！
kěnéng nǐ xíguàn le ，juéde fántī biǎoyì qīngchu xiē 。kàn fántī wǒ méishénme wèntí ，yào wǒ xiě jiù wánrwán le 。xiàng “guī ”zhè zhǒng zì jiù bié tí le ，chàbuduō yǒu èrshí bǐ ，wǒ kě bù xiǎng huà yī zhī dà wūguī ！
Maybe you're accustomed to them, so you think that traditional characters convey meaning more clearly. I have no problem reading traditional characters but if you make me write them, it's game over.
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乌龟说：“你太骄傲了，所以失败。你忘了努力是最重要的！”
wūguī shuō ：“nǐ tài jiāoào le ，suǒyǐ shībài 。nǐ wàng le nǔlì shì zuì zhòngyào de ！”
The tortoise said, “You were too arrogant, so you lost. You forgot that hard work is the most important thing.”
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兔子醒来，跑到大树下，乌龟早就到了。
tùzi xǐnglái ，pǎo dào dà shù xià ，wūguī zǎo jiù dào le 。
The hare woke up, and ran to the big tree. The tortoise had long since arrived.
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