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


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