| | tortoise; turtle / (coll.) cuckold | HSK 7-9 |
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| | head of a turtle / glans penis | |
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| | softshell turtle | |
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| | turtle / Internet slang for 海歸|海归 | |
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| | turtle jelly, medicine made with powdered turtle shell and herbs / a similar product made without turtle shell and consumed as a dessert | |
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| | mythological sea turtle | |
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| | softshell turtle | |
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| | a turtle that pulls its head in / (fig.) coward / chicken | |
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| | loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) | |
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| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Tw) / see 忍者神龜|忍者神龟 | |
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| | (idiom) to come first in triennial palace examinations (refers to the carved stone turtle head in front of the imperial palace, next to which the most successful candidate in the imperial examinations was entitled to stand); to be the champion; to be the very best in any field | |
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| | lit. like a turtle in a jar / to be trapped (idiom) | |
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| | softshell turtle | |
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| | turtle shell | |
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| | hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) / tortoiseshell / Taiwan pr. [dai4 mei4] | |
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| | tortoise plastron / turtle shell | |
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| | lit. to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom) / fig. to go after easy prey | |
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| | tortoise shell / turtle | |
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| | sea turtle | |
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| | (literary) (Chinese mythology) creature resembling a turtle with the head of a dragon, said to be capable of bearing great loads, often carved as plinths for steles in former times / (literary) strenuous; exerting great force | |
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| | softshell turtle / cuckold / (old) male owner of a brothel | |
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| | turtle dove or similar bird / oriental turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis) | |
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| | sea turtle | |
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| | snipe / turtle-dove | |
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| | nine-tailed turtle of mythology / The Nine-tailed Turtle, novel by late Qing novelist Zhang Chunfan 張春帆|张春帆 | |
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| | the edible gelatinous fringe of a softshell turtle's carapace | |
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| | turtle-shaped plinth of a stele | |
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| | soft-shelled turtle / also termed 鱉|鳖 | |
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| | 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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| | turtle enthusiast | |
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| | variant of 玳瑁 / hawksbill turtle | |
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| | turtle dove or similar bird; (esp.) oriental turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis) | |
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| | Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus) | |
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| | "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 | |
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| | wattle-necked soft-shelled turtle (Palea steindachneri) | |
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| | turtle's egg (highly offensive when directed at sb) | |
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| | Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), a critically endangered species | |
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| | (bird species of China) European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur) | |
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| | four divinities / four divine emperors / four mythical creatures symbolic of prosperity and longevity, namely the phoenix 鳳|凤, turtle 龜|龟, dragon 龍|龙 and Chinese unicorn 麒麟 / also 四象, the four division of the sky | |
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| | (bird species of China) oriental turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis) | |
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| | wattle-necked soft-shelled turtle (Palea steindachneri) | |
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| | Zhang Chunfan (-1935), late Qing novelist, author of The Nine-tailed Turtle 九尾龜|九尾龟 | |
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| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, US comic book series, first appeared in 1984, also films, video games etc | |
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| | turtle's egg (highly offensive when directed at sb) | |
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| | turtle dove or similar bird / oriental turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis) | |
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| | rare talent / lit. legendary nine-ribbed turtle of Yuan river | |
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| | (bird species of China) red collared dove; red turtle dove (Streptopelia tranquebarica) | |
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| | like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom) / no clue where to start | |
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| | the edible gelatinous fringe of a softshell turtle's carapace | |
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| | debt as heavy as a mountain on a turtle's back | |
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| | (dialect) the edible gelatinous fringe of a softshell turtle's carapace | |
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