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tortoise / cuckold
head of a turtle / glans penis
turtle enthusiast
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *龟* | 龟* | *龟
tortoise; turtle / (coll.) cuckold
HSK 7-9
turtle / Internet slang for 海歸|海归
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Tw) / see 忍者神龜|忍者神龟
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, US comic book series, first appeared in 1984, also films, video games etc
tortoise shell
(Tw) Volkswagen Beetle
wealthy son-in-law / wealthy husband
"turtle ship", armored warship used by Koreans in fighting the Japanese during the Imjin war of 1592-1598 壬辰倭亂|壬辰倭乱
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *龟* | 龟* | *龟
Gumi city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
as slow as a tortoise
Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus)
a turtle that pulls its head in / (fig.) coward / chicken
lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom) / fig. the pot calling the kettle black
(Tw) to lose one's shirt (gambling); to meet with failure (from Taiwanese 摃龜, Tai-lo pr. [kòng-ku])
loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)
tortoise / scarab beetle
ancient Central Asian city state, flourished in first millennium AD, in modern Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
tortoise plastron / turtle shell
to crack / cracked / fissured / creviced / (of skin) chapped
scarab
to withdraw / to hole up
tortoise
tortoise shell
(Tw) (coll.) indecisive; fussy; nitpicking (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ku-moo])
turtle jelly, medicine made with powdered turtle shell and herbs / a similar product made without turtle shell and consumed as a dessert
Formosan pit viper (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus)
Prime tortoise of the record bureau, Song dynasty historical encyclopedia of political essays, autobiography, memorials and decrees, compiled 1005-1013 under Wang Qinruo 王欽若|王钦若 and Yang Yi 楊億|杨亿, 1000 scrolls
like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom) / no clue where to start
Mauritius cowry / Mauritia mauritiana
Kikkoman, Japanese brand of soy sauce, food seasonings etc
dung beetle
nine-tailed turtle of mythology / The Nine-tailed Turtle, novel by late Qing novelist Zhang Chunfan 張春帆|张春帆
split-leaf philodendron / Monstera deliciosa
tortoise shell
dung beetle
(slang) man who grovels to a woman; man who accepts a subordinate or exploitative role in hopes of her approval
(Tw) to doze off (from Taiwanese 盹龜, Tai-lo pr. [tuh-ku])
pimp
(coll.) bastard / son of a bitch
turtle-shaped plinth of a stele
(coll.) son of a bitch / bastard
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *龟* | 龟* | *龟
variant of 皸|皲


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