guī
turtle or tortoise
Pictograph of a tortoise.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʷə | kjuw | guī | tortoise |
*[k]ʷrə | kwij | guī | tortoise |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.7413% of movies
2273rd most common character in movies
2392nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9F9C |
Shuowen | “龜，舊也，外骨內肉者也。从它，龜頭與它頭同，天地之性，廣肩無雄。龜鼈之類，以它為雄。象足、甲、尾之形。，古文龜。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
