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

tortoise / cuckold
tortoise / scarab beetle
Prime tortoise of the record bureau, Song dynasty historical encyclopedia of political essays, autobiography, memorials and decrees, compiled 1005-1013 under Wang Qinruo 王欽若|王钦若 and Yang Yi 楊億|杨亿, 1000 scrolls
Turtwig, Japanese comic character, turtle with seedling growing out of its head
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, US comic book series, first appeared in 1984, also films, video games etc
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Tw) / see 忍者神龜|忍者神龟[Ren3 zhe3 Shen2 gui1]
(Tw) to lose one's shirt (gambling) / to meet with failure / (from Taiwanese 摃龜, Tai-lo pr. [kòng-ku])
(Tw) to doze off (from Taiwanese 盹龜, Tai-lo pr. [tuh-ku])
a turtle that pulls its head in / (fig.) coward / chicken
like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom) / no clue where to start
wealthy son-in-law / wealthy husband
Volkswagen Beetle (Tw)
(Tw) to lose one's shirt (gambling); to meet with failure (from Taiwanese 摃龜, Tai-lo pr. [kòng-ku])
nine-tailed turtle of mythology / The Nine-tailed Turtle, novel by late Qing novelist Zhang Chunfan 張春帆|张春帆
Liugui or Liukuei township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[Gao1 xiong2 xian4], southwest Taiwan
Liugui or Liukuei township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[Gao1 xiong2 xian4], southwest Taiwan

Sentences with 龟

yuán
lái
shì
wu̅
gui̅
 
 
xia̅
mǐ
èr
jiàng