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aquatic products (including fish, crabs, seaweed etc)
HSK 5
pliers / pincers / tongs / forceps / vise / clamp / claw (of a crab etc) / CL: / (dialect) earring
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *殼* | 殼* | *殼
(coll.) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc) / case; casing; housing (of a machine or device)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蟹* | 蟹* | *蟹
crab
crab / CL: 隻|只
(gymnastics) to do a bridge / to do a crab
Chinese flowering crab apple (Malus spectabilis)
(dialect) to gather seafood at the beach while the tide is out; to comb the beach for shellfish, crabs or other marine life
the ovary and digestive glands of a female crab (eaten as a delicacy)
Chinese flowering crab-apple (Malus spectabilis)
hermit crab
crab louse; pubic louse
flowers on red silk (a traditional gift to celebrate weddings etc) / a bonus / crab apple (Malus asiatica)
crab of family Sesarmidae
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鱟* | 鱟* | *鱟
horseshoe crab
shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蟳* | 蟳* | *蟳
(hairy sea-crab)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *螯* | 螯* | *螯
chela; nippers; claw; pincers (of crabs, lobsters, scorpions etc)
crab meat
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *臍* | 臍* | *臍
(bound form) the navel; the umbilicus / (bound form) the belly flap of a crab; apron
Crab Nebula
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蛑* | 蛑* | *蛑
marine crab
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *柰* | 柰* | *柰
Chinese pear-leaved crab-apple
river crab / Internet censorship (pun on "harmonious" 和諧|和谐, which is blocked by the great firewall of China)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蜅* | 蜅* | *蜅
crab
crab meat
ambulatory leg (of a crab, lobster, spider etc)
horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus)
typhoon shelter (a cove where boats shelter from strong winds and rough seas, esp. in Hong Kong) / (attributive) typhoon shelter-style, a cooking method associated with those who lived on boats in the coves, where crab, prawn or other meat is fried and flavored with spices and black beans
snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio)
horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus)
crab of the family Potamidae of freshwater crabs
exoskeleton (the carapace of insects, crabs etc)
back cover / shell (of crab etc)
fiddler crab (genus Uca)
crab paste
Hele crab
crab of family Sesarmidae
mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis)
clams and crabs / tokay gecko (Gekko gecko)
crab-eating mongoose
crab roe / crab spawn / (used for crab meat in general)


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