"Carapace" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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外皮	wài pí	outer skin / carapace
甲壳	jiǎ qiào	carapace / crust / outer shell / also pr. [jia3 ke2]
介壳	jiè qiào	carapace / hard outer shell
壳	qiào	shell / carapace / crust (earth's crust etc) / also pr. [ke2]
皮壳	pí qiào	carapace / hard outer shell / also pr. [pi2 ke2]
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	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)
外骨骼	wài gǔ gé	exoskeleton (the carapace of insects, crabs etc)