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壳

ké

HSK 6 Character Traditional 殼

What 壳 means

1. colloquialshell (of an egg, nut, crab etc)
2. case; casing; housing (of a machine or device)

Other readings

壳 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• qiàoshell; Taiwan pr. ké
• qiàovariant of {壳|qiào}

Example sentences

• 蛋壳容易破碎。
  Dànké róngyì pòsuì.
  The shell of an egg is easily broken.
• 她在海边卖贝壳。
  Tā zài hǎibiān mài bèiké.
  She sells seashells by the seashore.
• 蜗牛壳是螺旋形的.
  Wōniúké shì luóxuánxíng de.
  A snail's shell is spiral in form.
• 蜗牛缩进壳里去了。
  The snail retreated into its shell.
• 我在海边捡了个漂亮贝壳。
  I picked up a pretty shell at the seaside.
• 在我手里的是一个贝壳化石。
  Zài wǒ shǒulǐ de shì yī gè bèiké huàshí.
  What I have in my hand is a fossil seashell.

Words starting with 壳

• 壳儿ké rshell; crust
• 壳菜qiào càimussels (as food)
• 壳质qiào zhìchitin
• 壳牌公司Qiào pái Gōng sīShell (oil company)
• 壳郎猪ké lang zhū(colloquial) feeder pig
• 壳幔ké màncrust-mantle (geology)
• 壳牌Qiào páisee 壳牌公司

Words containing 壳

• 贝壳bèi késhell (of a mollusk)
• 外壳wài kéenvelope; outer shell; hull
• 脑壳nǎo ké(colloquial) head; skull; (fig.) brains (mental capacity)
• 躯壳qū qiàothe body (as opposed to the soul)
• 甲壳jiǎ qiàocarapace; crust; outer shell
• 蛋壳dàn kéeggshell
• 地壳dì qiàothe Earth's crust
• 卡壳qiǎ ké(of a bullet or shell) to jam; (fig.) to get stuck; to be held up; to reach an impasse
• 空壳kōng kéempty shell
• 介壳jiè qiào(zoology) shell
• 借壳jiè ké(finance) to acquire a company as a shell
• 弹壳dàn kéammunition case
• 机壳jī qiàocase, casing, cabinet or housing (of a computer, photocopier etc)
• 洋壳yáng qiàooceanic crust (geology)
• 皮壳pí qiàocarapace; hard outer shell; also pr. pí ké
• 破壳pò ké(of a bird, insect etc) to hatch; (slang) (fig.) to be born…
• 硬壳yìng kécrust; hard shell
• 谷壳gǔ kéhusk (of rice etc); chaff
• 结壳jié kécrust; crusting; incrustation
• 耳壳ěr kéouter ear; auricle; pinna
• 脱壳tuō kéto break out of an eggshell; to molt; to remove the husk
• 船壳chuán kéhull (of a ship)
• 安全壳ān quán kécontainment vessel
• 手机壳shǒu jī kécell phone case

Characters that look like 壳

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 走zǒuto walk; to go; to run
• 麦màiwheat; barley; oats; mic (abbr. for 麦克风
• 丧sàngto lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc)…
• 灸jiǔmoxibustion (TCM)
• 秃tūbald (lacking hair or feathers); barren; bare; denuded; blunt (lacking a point)
• 羌qiāngmuntjac; grammar particle indicating nonsense (classical)

Sounds the same

Read ké, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 咳cough
• 颏(used in bird names) throat