biē

a fresh-water turtle

Evolution

鼈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鼈 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Definitions

𱌇 () 

biē

a fresh-water turtle, Trionyx sinensis

() 

biē

variant of |[biē]

Most common words with 鼈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

freshwater soft-shelled turtle

瓮中之鳖

lit. like a turtle in a jar

土鳖

ground beetle

瓮中捉鳖

a turkey shoot

地鳖

Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis), used in TCM

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3960th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

Unicode

U+9F08

Shuowen

“鼈,甲蟲也。从黽,敝聲。”


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