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蜕

tuì

Character Traditional 蛻

What 蜕 means

1. skin cast off during molting
2. exuvia
3. to pupate
4. to molt
5. to slough
6. to cast off an old skin or shell

Example sentences

• 蝉破土而出后，会蜕皮，等待身体干燥变硬，然后飞到树顶觅食和寻找配偶，它们通过发出响亮的蝉鸣来寻找配偶。
  Once out of the ground, the cicadas molt and wait for their bodies to dry and harden, then they fly to the tops of trees where they feed and look for a mate, which they do by making a loud buzz.

Words starting with 蜕

• 蜕变tuì biànto transform; to morph; to degenerate
• 蜕化tuì huà(of insects) to undergo metamorphosis; (fig.) to be transformed; to metamorphose
• 蜕壳tuì kéto exuviate; to molt
• 蜕皮tuì pískin cast off during molting; exuvium; to pupate
• 蜕化变质tuì huà biàn zhì(idiom) to degenerate (morally); to become depraved

Words containing 蜕

• 蝉蜕chán tuìcicada slough; fig. to free oneself; to extricate oneself from
• 遗蜕yí tuìto shed skin; to leave one's mortal envelope; remains (of a priest)

Characters built on 兑

These share the phonetic component 兑 (duì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 税shuìtaxes; duties
• 锐ruìacute

Characters that look like 蜕

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

• 概gài(bound form) general; approximate; without exception; categorically…
• 税shuìtaxes; duties
• 貌mào(bound form) appearance; looks; outward form
• 锐ruìacute
• 酰xiānacid radical; -acyl (chemistry)
• 蜒yánslug; used in 蜿蜒

Sounds the same

Read tuì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 退to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline
• 褪to take off (clothes); to shed (feathers); (of color) to fade…
• 駾approach at swift gallop (on horses)
• 煺to pluck poultry or depilate pigs using hot water