Radical 213

龜
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龜 (U+9F9C) "turtle"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	guī
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄨㄟ
Wade–Giles:	kuei1
Cantonese Yale:	gau1, gwai1, gwan1
Jyutping:	gau1, gwai1, gwan1
Japanese Kana:	キ, キュー ki, kyū かめ kame
Sino-Korean:	귀, 구 gwi, gu
Names
Japanese name(s):	亀 kame
Hangul:	거북 geobuk
Stroke order animation

Radical 213 meaning "turtle" is one of only two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are only 24 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

In Taoist cosmology, 龜 (Polyhedron) is the nature component of the Ba gua diagram 坎 Kǎn.

Characters with Radical 213[]