龟
guījūnqiū HSK7

turtle or tortoise

龟 龜 guī frequency
tortoise noun
tortoise; turtle; shell of a tortoise used for divination in ancient times

龟并不能从壳子里爬出来。

guī bìng bù​néng cóng ké zi li pá chū lái.

A turtle can’t crawl out of its shell.

cuckold
(colloquial) a man whose wife is unfaithful; a man who works in a brothel
to dawdle
(Taiwan colloquial) to stay in one place for a long time; to act very slowly
radical
the Kangxi radical 213
龟 龜 jūn
to chap
(bound form) to crack or chap due to cold or dryness, usually referring to skin or soil
龟 龜 qiū
[proper name]
(bound form) used in the ancient name of a kingdom in the Western Regions, 龟兹 qiū​cí

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,392nd most common 22.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,273rd most common 12.6 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.47 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
12.2 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
龜
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+9F9F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)