鳖 — Chinese character
鳖
biē
turtle
- Pinyin
- biē
- Radical
- 195 ⿂ (Fish)
- Strokes
- 19
- Components
- 敝 鱼
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fish; meaning component 鱼; sound component 敝
- Traditional
- 鱉
Common words with 鳖
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 土鳖 (土鱉) | tǔ biē | ground beetle; (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海归 (hǎi guī), has never studied overseas |
| 瓮中之鳖 (甕中之鱉) | wèng zhōng zhī biē | lit. like a turtle in a jar; to be trapped (idiom) |
| 鳖甲 (鱉甲) | biē jiǎ | turtle shell |
| 瓮中捉鳖 (甕中捉鱉) | wèng zhōng zhuō biē | (lit.) to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom); (fig.) to go after easy prey |
| 地鳖 (地鱉) | dì biē | Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis), used in TCM |
| 山瑞鳖 (山瑞鱉) | shān ruì biē | wattle-necked soft-shelled turtle (Palea steindachneri) |
| 斑鳖 (斑鱉) | bān biē | Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), a critically endangered species |
| 木鳖果 (木鱉果) | mù biē guǒ | gac fruit (Momordica cochinchinensis) |
| 番木鳖碱 (番木鱉鹼) | fān mù biē jiǎn | strychnine (C21H22N2O2) |
| 马鳖 (馬鱉) | mǎ biē | leech |
| 鳖裙 (鱉裙) | biē qún | the edible gelatinous fringe of a softshell turtle's carapace |
| 鳖边 (鱉邊) | biē biān | (dialect) the edible gelatinous fringe of a softshell turtle's carapace |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.