亀 — kanji meaning “tortoise”
亀
tortoise, turtle
- Meanings
- tortoise, turtle
- On'yomi
- キ (ki)、キュウ (kyuu)、キン (kin)
- Kun'yomi
- かめ
- Name readings
- ひさ、ひさし
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1353 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 5
- Chinese reading
- guī, jūn, qiū
Words with 亀
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亀裂 | きれつ kiretsu | crack; crevice; fissure |
| 亀甲 | きっこう kikkou | tortoiseshell; tortoise shell |
| 亀田製菓 | かめだせいか kamedaseika | Kameda Seika Company |
| 亀の甲 | かめのこう kamenokou | tortoise shell |
| 出歯亀 | でばがめ debagame | voyeur; Peeping Tom |
| 泥亀 | どろがめ dorogame | Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) |
| 鶴亀算 | つるかめざん tsurukamezan | obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes |
| 石亀 | いしがめ ishigame | any turtle of the genus Mauremys (esp. the Japanese pond turtle, Mauremys japonica) |
| 亀の子 | かめのこ kamenoko | young turtle (tortoise) |
| 亀の手 | かめのて kamenote | barnacle |
| 亀鑑 | きかん kikan | pattern; example; model |
| 亀頭 | きとう kitou | glans (esp. glans penis) |
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