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HSK
(of a bird, insect etc) to hatch / (slang) (fig.) to be born / to crack open (an egg, a nut etc)
shell (of a mollusk)
HSK 7-9
coconut fiber / coir
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  *壳* | 壳* | *壳
(bound form) shell / Taiwan pr. [ke2]
HSK 7-9
(geotectonics) crustal movement; diastrophism
containment vessel
(finance) to acquire a company as a shell
Shell (oil company)
cell phone case
(coll.) head; skull / (fig.) brains (mental capacity)
metal cover
envelope / outer shell / hull / cover / case
egg tooth
(zoology) bivalve
tortoise shell
nut
(of a bullet or shell) to jam / (fig.) to get stuck; to be held up; to reach an impasse
shell / crust
lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell / a crafty escape plan
to break out of an eggshell / to molt / to remove the husk / to shell
the body (as opposed to the soul)
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  *壳* | 壳* | *壳
(coll.) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc) / case; casing; housing (of a machine or device)
oceanic crust (geology)
(coll.) a blockhead; a thickhead
crust; crusting; incrustation
chitin
mussels (as food)
the Beatles (1960s UK pop group)
beetle
to exuviate; to molt
crustacean
shell company; shell corporation
crust-mantle (geology)
empty shell
coconut shell
husk (of rice etc); chaff
the Earth's crust
crustacean
clamshell
insects of the order Coleoptera (i.e. beetles)
rice husk
chitin
ammunition case
carapace / hard outer shell / also pr. [pi2 ke2]
oceanic crust (geology)
oil sump
Mauser pistol
hull (of a ship)
outer ear / auricle / pinna
carapace / crust / outer shell / also pr. [jia3 ke2]
(zoology) shell
eggshell
Formosan pit viper (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus)
case, casing, cabinet or housing (of a computer, photocopier etc)
fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house
(slang) (fig.) birthday
tortoise shell
eggshell
bitter orange (Fructus aurantii) (used in TCM)
crust; hard shell
adductor muscle (of a bivalve mollusk)
tortoise shell
oceanic crust (geology)
bark of Croton tiglium used as purgative
(coll.) feeder pig
(idiom) muddled; momentarily confused
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variant of 殼|壳
HSK 7-9
erhua variant of 貝殼|贝壳


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