"Shell" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 空壳公司 | kōng ké gōng sī | Shell |  |
| 壳牌公司 | Qiào pái gōng sī | Shell (oil company) | |
| 贝壳 | bèi ké | shell / conch / cowry / mother of pearl / hard outer skin / also pr. [bei4 qiao4] |  |
| 盖子 | gài zi | cover / lid / shell | |
| 炮击 | pào jī | to shell / to bombard / bombardment | |
| 脱壳 | tuō ké | to break out of an eggshell / to molt / to remove the husk / to shell | |
| 后盖 | hòu gài | back cover / shell (of crab etc) | |
| 弹 |  dàn | crossball / bullet / shot / shell / ball | |
| 介 | jiè | to introduce / to lie between / between / shell / armor | |
| 壳 | qiào | shell / carapace / crust (earth's crust etc) / also pr. [ke2] | |
| 剥 | bāo | to peel / to skin / to shell / to shuck | |
| 瑔 | quán | jade / shell | |
| 壳儿 | ké r | shell / crust | |
| 壳层 | hollow core / shell | | |
| 部份 | bù fen | part (of a whole) / piece / section / share / shell (Unix) | |
| 外壳 | wài ké | envelope / outer shell / hull / cover / case | |
| 炮弹 | pào dàn | artillery shell / CL:枚[mei2] | |
| 交钱 | jiāo qián | to pay up / to shell out / to hand over the money to cover sth | |
| 带子 | dài zi | belt / band / ribbon / strap / girdle / (coll.) audio or video tape / Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri) / comb pen shell (Atrina pectinata) | |
| 外层 | wài céng | outer layer / outer shell | |
| 榴弹 | liú dàn | high explosive shell / grenade | |
| 弹片 | dàn piàn | shrapnel / shell fragment | |
| 硬壳 | yìng ké | crust / hard shell | |
| 龟壳 | guī ké | tortoise shell | |
| 金蝉脱壳 | jīn chán tuō qiào | lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom) / fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell / a crafty escape plan | |
| 甲骨 | jiǎ gǔ | tortoise shell and animal bones used in divination / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script) | |
| 甲壳 | jiǎ qiào | carapace / crust / outer shell / also pr. [jia3 ke2] | |
| 毒气弹 | dú qì dàn | poison gas shell / poison gas grenade | |
| 蜕皮 | tuì pí | skin cast off during molting / exuvium / to pupate / to molt / to slough / to cast off an old skin or shell | |
| 椰壳 | yē ké | coconut shell | |
| 皮包公司 | pí bāo gōng sī | lit. briefcase company / dummy corporation / shell company / fly-by-night company | |
| 龟苓膏 | guī líng gāo | turtle jelly, medicine made with powdered turtle shell and herbs / a similar product made without turtle shell and consumed as a dessert | |
| 乌龟壳 | wū guī ké | tortoise shell | |
| 照明弹 | zhào míng dàn | flare / star shell | |
| 介壳 | jiè qiào | carapace / hard outer shell | |
| 贝雕 | bèi diāo | shell carving | |
| 甲 | jiǎ | first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° | |
| 壳 | ké | shell / hard carapace / crust (e.g. earth's crust etc) | |
| 哑 | yǎ | dumb / mute / hoarse / husky / unexploded (of artillery shell etc) | |
| 螺 | luó | spiral shell / snail / conch | |
| 蜕 | tuì | skin cast off during molting / exuvia / to pupate / to molt / to slough / to cast off an old skin or shell | |
| 稃 | fū | husk / outside shell of grain | |
| 弹痕 | dàn hén | bullet hole / shell hole | |
| 榴霰弹 | liú xiàn dàn | shrapnel shell / shrapnel / also pr. [liu2 san3 dan4] | |
| 形同虚设 | xíng tóng xū shè | to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom) | |
| 螺号 | luó hào | conch / shell as horn for signaling | |
| 贝丘 | bèi qiū | shell mound | |
| 鳖甲 | biē jiǎ | turtle shell | |
| 彩蚌 | cǎi bàng | painted shell / painting on shell | |
| 价层 | jià céng | valency shell (chemistry) | |
| 价电子 | jià diàn zǐ | valency electron / outer shell of electrons | |
| 六角括号 | liù jiǎo kuò hào | tortoise shell brackets 〔〕 | |
| 卜甲 | bǔ jiǎ | oracle tortoise shell | |
| 母弹 | mǔ dàn | parent shell (of a cluster bomb) | |
| 玳瑁壳 | dài mào ké | tortoise shell | |
| 皮壳 | pí qiào | carapace / hard outer shell / also pr. [pi2 ke2] | |
| 破甲弹 | pò jiǎ dàn | armor piercing shell | |
| 硬壳果 | yìng ké guǒ | nut / fruit with hard shell | |
| 电子层 | diàn zǐ céng | electron shell (in the atom) | |
| 电子层数 | diàn zǐ céng shù | electron shell number (chemistry) | |
| 射出火力 | shè chū huǒ lì | outgoing fire / outgoing shell | |
| 射入火力 | shè rù huǒ lì | incoming fire / incoming round / incoming shell | |
| 破片杀伤炮弹 | fragmentation shell | | |
| 电子壳 | electron shell | | |
| 假公司 | jiǎ gōng sī | dummy corporation / shell corporation | |
| 排除炮弹 | shell clearance | | |
| 破片杀伤炸弹 | fragmentation bomb / fragmentation shell | | |
| 抵制壳牌运动 | Shell Boycott campaign | | |
| 龙宫贝 | lóng gōng bèi | Rumphius's slit shell (Entemnotrochus rumphii), found in Japan and Taiwan | |
| 蚆 | bā | a kind of shell | |
| 外刚内柔 | wài gāng nèi róu | soft on the inside despite one's hard shell / appearing tough on the outside as to mask one's inner vulnerability / also written 內柔外剛|内柔外刚[nei4 rou2 wai4 gang1] | |
| 龟板 | guī bǎn | tortoise plastron / turtle shell | |
| 五通 | wǔ tōng | bottom bracket shell (in a bicycle frame) / (Buddhism) the five supernatural powers (abbr. for 五神通) | |
| 江珧柱 | jiāng yáo zhù | (seafood) adductor muscle of a scallop or pen shell | |
