tortoise / turtle

龟 character breakdown

lightning / electricity / electric (bound form) / to get (or give) an electric shock / phone call or telegram etc / to send via telephone or telegram etc

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) is looking for a wall plug for her charger (mnemonic symbol for 电) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). She's digging up the whole place with a shovel (乚), but instead of a wall plug she finds a microphone (曰).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

I think this looks like a crane; to the left is its wing, and to the right its head.

Characters with 龟 as component

lots (to be drawn) / lot (in a game of chance)

Words with 龟

Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus)
(coll.) bastard / son of a bitch
turtle enthusiast
(coll.) son of a bitch / bastard
Gumi city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
Guishan or Kueishan township in Taoyuan county 桃園縣|桃园县[Tao2 yuan2 xian4], north Taiwan
Guishan or Kueishan township in Taoyuan county 桃園縣|桃园县[Tao2 yuan2 xian4], north Taiwan
tortoise plastron / turtle shell
tortoise shell
Formosan pit viper / Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus
(Tw) (coll.) indecisive / fussy / nitpicking / (Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ku-moo])
Mauritius cowry / Mauritia mauritiana
Kikkoman, Japanese brand of soy sauce, food seasonings etc
lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom) / fig. the pot calling the kettle black
split-leaf philodendron / Monstera deliciosa
"turtle ship", armored warship used by Koreans in fighting the Japanese during the Imjin war of 1592-1598 壬辰倭亂|壬辰倭乱[ren2 chen2 wo1 luan4]
turtle jelly, medicine made with powdered turtle shell and herbs / a similar product made without turtle shell and consumed as a dessert
(Tw) (coll.) indecisive; fussy; nitpicking (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ku-moo])

Sentences with 龟

yuán
lái
shì
wu̅
gui̅
 
 
xia̅
mǐ
èr
jiàng