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Trad. 槓龜
- (Tw) to lose one's shirt (gambling); to meet with failure (from Taiwanese 摃龜, Tai-lo pr. [kòng-ku])
Trad. 龜毛
- (Tw) (coll.) indecisive; fussy; nitpicking (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ku-moo])
Trad. 龜男
- (slang) man who grovels to a woman; man who accepts a subordinate or exploitative role in hopes of her approval
Trad. 龜船
- "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]
Trad. 龜茲
- ancient Central Asian city state, flourished in first millennium AD, in modern Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
Trad. 忍者龜
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Tw)
- see 忍者神龜|忍者神龟[Ren3 zhe3 Shen2 gui1]
Trad. 龜尾市
- Gumi city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
Trad. 龜殼花
- Formosan pit viper (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus)
Trad. 龜甲萬
- Kikkoman, Japanese brand of soy sauce, food seasonings etc
Trad. 龜苓膏
- turtle jelly, medicine made with powdered turtle shell and herbs
- a similar product made without turtle shell and consumed as a dessert
Trad. 九尾龜
- nine-tailed turtle of mythology
- The Nine-tailed Turtle, novel by late Qing novelist Zhang Chunfan 張春帆|张春帆
Trad. 忍者神龜
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, US comic book series, first appeared in 1984, also films, video games etc
Trad. 縮頭烏龜
- a turtle that pulls its head in
- (fig.) coward
- chicken
Trad. 龜甲寶螺
- Mauritius cowry
- Mauritia mauritiana
Trad. 冊府元龜
- 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
Trad. 龜笑鱉無尾
- lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom)
- fig. the pot calling the kettle black
Trad. 老鼠拉龜，無從下手
- like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom)
- no clue where to start