Tortoise in Chinese
tortoise · HSK 6
乌龟
- 乌 crow
- 龟 tortoise
Counted with 只: 一只乌龟
我家养了一只小乌龟。 My family keeps a little turtle.
How do you say tortoise in Chinese?
Tortoise in Chinese is 乌龟 (wū guī).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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