龟裂

龜裂
jūnliè
verb #47,225

Meanings

  1. 1 to crack
  2. 2 to fissure
  3. 3 to become chapped

Examples

Chángqī gānhàn hòu, tián lǐ de tǔdì jūnliè le.
After a long drought, the soil in the fields had cracked open.
Dōngtiān tā de shǒu chángcháng jūnliè.
In winter her hands often grow chapped and cracked.

Tips

mistakes
In 龟裂 the character is read jūn, not the familiar guī from 乌龟 ('turtle'). It describes the net of cracks that looks like a tortoise-shell pattern, which is how this reading became attached to drought-split earth and chapped skin.

Stroke Order

guī
liè