Keyword
snapping turtle
Info
FrequencyUncommon
KankenLevel 1
Heisig3000
Readings
べっ
(76%)
べつ
(11%)
Composed of
damaged clothing
frog seen from above
Used in vocabulary (12 in total)
tortoiseshell (of the hawksbill turtle); bekko; tortoiseshell (esp. of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle)
Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis); soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae); trap door located on the walkway in a kabuki theatre; bilge pump (used on traditional Japanese ships)
spider wasp; pompilid
hard candy; candy suckers molded on a griddle; (lit.) tortoise-shell candy
amber (colour, color)
two things that superficially similar but completely different; night and day; chalk and cheese; (lit.) the Moon and a turtle
article of tortoise shell; tortoiseshell work
Lethocerus deyrollei (species of giant water bug)
chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora); sea cradle; Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)
tortoiseshell sauce; thickened sauce of dashi, soy, mirin, etc.
tortoiseshell sauce; thickened sauce of dashi, soy, mirin, etc.
common stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)