加拉帕戈斯象龟加拉帕戈斯象龜 in English

Character breakdown

• 加 jiā to add
• 拉 lā to pull
• 帕 pà to wrap
• 戈 gē dagger-axe
• 斯 sī (phonetic)
• 象 xiàng elephant
• 龟龜 guī tortoise

Stroke order

How it used to be written

加

• Bronze script 西周早期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 11 forms

拉

• Small seal script

戈

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script
• See all 15 forms

斯

• Bronze script 春秋晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 9 forms

象

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 12 forms

龟

These are the forms of 龜, the traditional character: 龟 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 10 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).