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金蝉脱壳

jīn chán tuō qiào

4-character word Traditional 金蟬脫殼

What 金蝉脱壳 means

1. lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell
2. a crafty escape plan

The characters in 金蝉脱壳

• 金jīngold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals
• 蝉cháncicada
• 脱tuōto shed; to take off; to escape
• 壳ké(colloquial) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc); case; casing…