(coll.) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc); case; casing; housing (of a machine or device)

variant of 殼|壳[qiao4]

envelope; outer shell; hull; cover; case

ammunition case

empty shell

the body (as opposed to the soul)

the Earth's crust

(coll.) head; skull; (fig.) brains (mental capacity)

(zoology) shell

(finance) to acquire a company as a shell

(of a bullet or shell) to jam; (fig.) to get stuck; to be held up; to reach an impasse

case, casing, cabinet or housing (of a computer, photocopier etc)

bitter orange (Fructus aurantii) (used in TCM)

coconut shell

oceanic crust (geology)

carapace; crust; outer shell; also pr. [jia3 ke2]

carapace; hard outer shell; also pr. [pi2 ke2]

(of a bird, insect etc) to hatch; (slang) (fig.) to be born; to crack open (an egg, a nut etc)

crust; hard shell

rice husk

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

eggshell

to exuviate; to molt

see 蛻殼|蜕壳[tui4 ke2]

husk (of rice etc); chaff

tortoise shell

tortoise shell

containment vessel

bark of Croton tiglium used as purgative

cell phone case

oil sump

tortoise shell

(coll.) a blockhead; a thickhead

oceanic crust (geology)

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

(idiom) muddled; momentarily confused

oceanic crust (geology)