亀

Variant of 龜, simplified from 龜[[Category:|亀]]. The modern Japanese usage is of reform (shinjitai) nature.

亀 (Kangxi radical 213, 亀+0, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓田中山 (NWLU), four-corner 2771₆, composition ⿻龟日)

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 142, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 210
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 8 (in addendum), page 10, character 19
• Unihan data for U+4E80

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 龜)

• Go-on: き (ki, Jōyō)^{←き (ki, historical)}; く (ku)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)^{←き (ki, historical)}; きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: かめ (kame, 亀, Jōyō)
• Nanori: あま (ama); すすむ (susumu); ひさ (hisa); ひさし (hisashi)

• 神(じん)亀(き) (Jinki)
• 金亀子(コガネムシ) (koganemushi)

亀 (kame): a turtle.

⟨kame₂⟩ → */kaməɨ/ → /kame/

From Old Japanese.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What is etymological meaning?”)

• (Tokyo) か​め [káꜜmè] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠me̞]

亀(かめ) • (kame) 

1. a tortoise or turtle (land or marine reptile with a shell)
   • 2007, Kōsuke Hasumi, The Biology of Fairy Tales (page 28)

     休(やす)んで負(ま)けてしまったウサギと休(やす)まず走(はし)って勝利(しょうり)したカメ。

     Yasunde makete shimatta usagi to yasumazu hashitte shōri shita kame.

     The tortoise that ran without resting and won, and the hare that rested and lost.

2. (by extension, figurative, as turtles are thought to be good drinkers) a drunkard
3. a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various designs of tortoises
4. (figurative) sluggishness; also, such a person
5. a shrugger
6. (slang, as it resembles a turtle's neck) a penis

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カメ.

• 亀(かめ)の年(とし)を鶴(つる)が羨(うらや)む (kame no toshi o tsuru ga urayamu)

• 鶴(つる)は千(せん)年(ねん)亀(かめ)は万(まん)年(ねん) (tsuru wa sennen kame wa mannen)

From Middle Chinese 龜 (MC kˠiuɪ).

亀(き) • (ki) 

1. tortoise, turtle
2. tortoise shell used in divination

• タートル (tātoru)
• トータス (tōtasu)
• 鼈(スッポン) (suppon)

亀 • (gwi, gyun) (hangeul 귀, 균, revised gwi, gyun, McCune–Reischauer kwi, kyun)

1. a turtle's or tortoise's shell