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The name Japanese Turtle in Japanese...

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Personalize your custom “Japanese Turtle” project by clicking the button next to your favorite “Japanese Turtle” title below...

See also: Selections of just Japanese Kanji Calligraphy


  1. Legendary Turtle

  2. Pigeon / Turtle-Dove

  3. Dove / Pigeon

  4. Sea Turtle

  5. Japanese Snapping Turtle / Chinese Soft Shell Turtle

  6. Japanese Snapping Turtle

  7. Turtle


Legendary Turtle

 densetsu no kame
Legendary Turtle Scroll

伝説の亀 means “legendary turtle” in Japanese.

Pigeon / Turtle-Dove

 jiū
 hato
 
Pigeon / Turtle-Dove Scroll

鳩 means turtle-dove (Turtur orientalis), pigeon, or dove.

Note: There are a few other characters that can represent pigeons or doves.

Dove / Pigeon

 gē
 hato
 
Dove / Pigeon Scroll

鴿 means turtle-dove, pigeon, or dove. This can refer to domestic or feral pigeons.

Note: There are a few other characters that can represent pigeons or doves.

 umigame
Sea Turtle Scroll

海亀 is the Japanese title for sea turtle.

海 literally means sea or ocean.

亀 means turtle or tortoise.

Japanese Snapping Turtle / Chinese Soft Shell Turtle

 biē
 suppon
 
Japanese Snapping Turtle / Chinese Soft Shell Turtle Scroll

鼈 refers to a species of turtle.

Sinensis Turtle

鼈 is Trionyx Sinensis.

鼈 refers to different turtles in different languages. See individual language notes below:

Japanese: 鼈 means “snapping turtle” or “mud turtle.” But rarely used as a single Kanji like this in Japanese.

Chinese: 鼈 means soft-shelled turtle. A specific species, Trionyx Sinensis is native to Asia.
In China, this species is related to the “wang ba,” a soft-shelled turtle sometimes known in English as a banjo turtle (due to its long neck, and general shape). Unfortunately, there is a word, “wang ba dan” which means the egg of this species of turtle. That term has come to mean “bastard” in Chinese (a turtle hatches from an abandoned egg, and does not know who his mother or father is). 鼈 is not a good selection for a wall scroll if your audience is Chinese.

In Korean, this character can be pronounced (though most Koreans would have to look it up in a dictionary). It has not been in common use in Korea for at least a few hundred years.

General notes: You may notice that the bottom half of this character is the same as some other turtle-related titles. That bottom half is actually an ancient character that means “toad.” 黽 Though not seen in this way today, most turtle-related characters hold the meaning of “a toad with a shell” in their ancient origin. That toad character is rarely used alone anymore but you can see what it looks like in the image to the right.

Japanese Snapping Turtle

 ka mi tsu ki game
Japanese Snapping Turtle Scroll

噛み付き亀 is the verbose Japanese title for a Japanese snapping turtle.


Note: Because this selection contains some special Japanese Hiragana characters, it should be written by a Japanese calligrapher.

Turtle

...also means tortoise

 guī
 kame
 
Turtle Scroll

龜 is the generic term for turtle in Chinese and old Korean Hanja. It's like saying “turtle” (or “tortoise”) without being specific about the species of turtle.

Please note that there are many special characters in Chinese and a few in Japanese that denote specific species of turtle and do not include this character. We can't possibly cover all of these species, but if you want a certain one, such as “loggerhead” or a “leatherback,” just contact me, and I'll do my best to research your special species.

If you noticed, I said species names that do not include this character. This is because, in much the same way we can do it in English by just saying, “loggerhead” instead of “loggerhead turtle,” the same can be done in Chinese and Japanese.

亀This may be hard to believe, but the image shown to the right is an alternate version of this character, which is currently used in Japan. This was originally an alternate form in ancient China for turtle - but it's so obscure now that most Chinese people would just think this is the Japanese version of turtle (I did a lot of research on this). The version shown in the upper left is traditional Chinese (also used in Korea 100+ years ago). It will generally not be recognized by the new generation of Japanese people. If your audience is Japanese, please click on the Kanji image shown to the right to have the calligrapher write that version (instead of clicking the button above).


Note: In Japanese, this Kanji is also a representation of long life. This is related to the fact that a tortoise can live for hundreds of years.




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Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your japanese turtle search...

Characters

If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese

Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition


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biē
    bie1
pieh
 suppon; betsu(ok); suppon
    すっぽん; べつ(ok); スッポン
variant of 鱉|鳖[bie1]
(1) (kana only) Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis); soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae); (2) (すっぽん only) trap door located on the walkway in a kabuki theatre; (3) (すっぽん only) bilge pump (used on traditional Japanese ships); (surname) Kame
A turtle, tortoise.

see styles
yuán
    yuan2
yüan
 meguru
    めぐる
yen (Japanese currency); Japanese variant of 圓|圆
(1) circle; (n,n-pref) (2) entirety; whole; full; complete; (3) (slang) money; dough; moola; (4) enclosure inside a castle's walls; (5) (ksb:) soft-shelled turtle; (suffix) (6) suffix for ship names; suffix for names of people (esp. infants); suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc.; suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.; (1) yen; Japanese monetary unit; (2) circle; (female given name) Meguru

水亀

see styles
 ishigame
    いしがめ
(kana only) any turtle of the genus Mauremys (esp. the Japanese pond turtle, Mauremys japonica)

石亀

see styles
 ishigame
    いしがめ
(kana only) any turtle of the genus Mauremys (esp. the Japanese pond turtle, Mauremys japonica); (place-name, surname) Ishigame

銭亀

see styles
 zenigame; zenigame
    ぜにがめ; ゼニガメ
(kana only) (See 石亀) baby spotted turtle; immature Japanese pond turtle; young Japanese terrapin; (surname) Zenigame

龜船


龟船

see styles
guī chuán
    gui1 chuan2
kuei ch`uan
    kuei chuan
"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]

嫩苗龜


嫩苗龟

see styles
nèn miáo guī
    nen4 miao2 gui1
nen miao kuei
Turtwig, Japanese comic character, turtle with seedling growing out of its head

イシガメ

see styles
 ishigame
    イシガメ
(kana only) any turtle of the genus Mauremys (esp. the Japanese pond turtle, Mauremys japonica)

ゼニガメ

see styles
 zenigame
    ゼニガメ
(kana only) baby spotted turtle; immature Japanese pond turtle; young Japanese terrapin

日本石亀

see styles
 nihonishigame; nihonishigame
    にほんいしがめ; ニホンイシガメ
(kana only) Japanese pond turtle (Mauremys japonica)

Variations:
石亀
水亀

see styles
 ishigame; ishigame
    いしがめ; イシガメ
(kana only) any turtle of the genus Mauremys (esp. the Japanese pond turtle, Mauremys japonica)

ニホンイシガメ

see styles
 nihonishigame
    ニホンイシガメ
(kana only) Japanese pond turtle (Mauremys japonica)

The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...

Title CharactersRomaji (Romanized Japanese)Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Legendary Turtle伝説の亀densetsu no kame
densetsunokame
Pigeon
Turtle-Dove

hatojiū / jiu1 / jiuchiu
Dove
Pigeon
鴿
hatogē / ge1 / geko
Sea Turtle海亀umigame
Japanese Snapping Turtle
Chinese Soft Shell Turtle
suppon / suponbiē / bie1 / biepieh
Japanese Snapping Turtle噛み付き亀ka mi tsu ki game
kamitsukigame
Turtle
龟 / 亀
kameguī / gui1 / guikuei
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line.
In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.


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