Keyword
turtle
- tortoise
- Frequency
- #1353
- Strokes
- 11
- Grade
- 8
- JLPT (old)
- N1
- Heisig
- 573
Readings
キ50%
かめ50%
Mnemonic
On an alien beach under a sun and a second sun, a hook claw drags a sunburnt shell forward, its tail curled like an umbrella handle: a very weary turtle.
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Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
亀甲
tortoiseshell; tortoise shell; tortoiseshell pattern; honeycomb pattern; hexagonal pattern; tortoiseshell bracket (punctuation mark)
Noun
亀の甲
tortoise shell; hexagon pattern; hexagon shape; benzene ring; benzene-ring structure; tortoise shell (shape)
Expression
銀亀鯵
bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus); bigeye jack; great trevally; six-banded trevally; dusky jack
Noun
鶴亀算
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
Noun