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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
beetle
insects of the order Coleoptera (i.e. beetles)
crustacean
carapace / hard outer shell / also pr. []
(of a bird, insect etc) to hatch / (slang) (fig.) to be born / to crack open (an egg, a nut etc)
(slang) (fig.) birthday
egg tooth
nut
rice husk
husk (of rice etc) / chaff
shell company / shell corporation
crust / crusting / incrustation
outer ear / auricle / pinna
to break out of an eggshell / to molt / to remove the husk / to shell
hull (of a ship)
clamshell
to exuviate / to molt
see 蛻殼|蜕壳[]
erhua variant of 貝殼|贝壳[]
lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom) / fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell / a crafty escape plan
adductor muscle (of a bivalve mollusk)
(zoology) bivalve
eggshell
Mauser pistol
(idiom) muddled / momentarily confused
tortoise shell
Formosan pit viper (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus)
see 殼牌公司|壳牌公司[]
Shell (oil company)
the Beatles (1960s UK pop group)
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27