| 字词 | 龜 |
| 释义 | »» 龜 guī MC kwij 1. general term for turtle, tortoise; symbolic of longevity and immutability; image of the cosmos, its carapace replicating the vaulted heaven and its underside the flat earth. One of the “four numinous animals” (siling 四靈); conjoined with snake wrapped round it as the “dusky warrior” (xuanwu 玄武), emblematic of the north, the color black, wintertime, and the wuxing phase of water. 2. turtle shell, usu. the plastron but sometimes the carapace, used in divination; after the dried shell was prepared, a red-hot poker was applied to a designated point and the resulting cracks (卜 bǔ) interpreted; the process and practice of cheloniomancy; the species used seem mainly to have been turtles, not tortoises, esp. Mauremys sinensis and Geoclemmys reevesi. 3. turtle or tortoise shell used as currency in various places in pre-imperial times. 4. humped or arched backbone of certain mammals, such as deer. jūn MC kwin 1. ⦿ 皸 jūn, chapped or cracked skin. qiū MC khjuw 1. (bn.) 龜兹 qiūcí (MC khjuw-dzi), Kucha, oasis city on the northern Silk Road in the Tarim Basin, esp. important in Tang times for popularity of its music and musical instruments brought to China.
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