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(Trad.: 鱉)
Pinyin: biē
English Definition: freshwater soft-shelled turtle
Chinese Definition:
①爬行动物,生活在水中,形状像龟,背甲上有软皮,无纹。肉可食,甲可入药。亦称“甲鱼”、“团鱼”;有的地区称“鼋”;俗称“王八”。
Total strokes: 19; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (fish) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Above to below
    • [ ] to break, to destroy; ruined, tattered
    • [ ] fish
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Example Words
土鳖 biē ground beetle; (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海归 , has never studied overseas; (dialect) country bumpkin
瓮中之鳖 wèng zhōng zhī biē lit. like a turtle in a jar; to be trapped (idiom)
瓮中捉鳖 wèng zhōng zhuō biē to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom); to set oneself an easy target; a turkey shoot
鳖甲 biē jiǎ turtle shell
龟笑鳖无尾 guī xiào biē wěi lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom); fig. the pot calling the kettle black
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Example Sentences
1
Its stores sell live turtles and toads.
2
Aquatic product category: Carp, carp, sea eel , turtle, jellyfish.
3
便
For when my wings were spread in the sun their shadow upon the earth was a turtle.
4
饿
How I could not have so much as got any Food, except Fish and Turtles; and that as it was long before I found any of them, I must have perish'd first.
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Some 43 new reptile species were discovered on New Guinea between 1998-2008: this includes 5 snakes 37 new lizard species and a soft-shelled turtle.