亀
See also: 龜
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Translingual edit
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Traditional | 龜 |
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Shinjitai | 亀 |
Simplified | 龟 |
Glyph origin edit
Variant of 龜, simplified from 龜. The modern Japanese usage is of reform (shinjitai) nature.
Han character edit
亀 (Kangxi radical 213, 亀+0, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓田中山 (NWLU), four-corner 27716, composition ⿻龟日)
Derived Characters edit
References edit
- 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 edit
For pronunciation and definitions of 亀 – see 龜 (“turtle; tortoise; cuckold; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 龜). |
Japanese edit
亀 | |
龜 |
Kanji edit
亀
(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 龜)
Readings edit
- Go-on: き (ki, Jōyō)←き (ki, historical); く (ku)
- Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)←き (ki, historical); きゅう (kyū)←きう (kiu, historical)
- Kun: かめ (kame, 亀, Jōyō)
- Nanori: あま (ama); すすむ (susumu); ひさ (hisa); ひさし (hisashi)
Compounds edit
- 神亀 (Jinki)
- 金亀子 (koganemushi)
Etymology 1 edit
Kanji in this term |
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亀 |
かめ Grade: S |
kun’yomi |
Alternative spelling |
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龜 (kyūjitai) |
⟨kame2⟩ → */kaməɨ/ → /kame/
From Old Japanese 龜 (kame2). First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- a tortoise or turtle (land or marine reptile with a shell)
- 2007, Kōsuke Hasumi, The Biology of Fairy Tales, page 28:
- 休んで負けてしまったウサギと休まず走って勝利したカメ。
- Yasunde makete shimatta usagi to yasumazu hashitte shōri shita kame.
- The tortoise ran without resting and won, and the hare rested and lost.
- 休んで負けてしまったウサギと休まず走って勝利したカメ。
- (by extension, figurative, as turtles are thought to be good drinkers) a drunkard
- a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various designs of tortoises
- (figurative) sluggishness; also, such a person
- a shrugger
- (slang, as it resembles a turtle's neck) a penis
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:陰茎
Usage notes edit
- 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 edit
Derived terms
Idioms edit
Proverbs edit
Etymology 2 edit
Kanji in this term |
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亀 |
き Grade: S |
on’yomi |
Alternative spelling |
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龜 (kyūjitai) |
From Middle Chinese 龜 (MC kwij).
Affix edit
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ “亀”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ 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 edit
Hanja edit
亀 • (gwi, gyun) (hangeul 귀, 균, revised gwi, gyun, McCune–Reischauer kwi, kyun)