"Shell" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 bèi ké shell / conch / cowry / mother of pearl / hard outer skin / also pr. [bei4 qiao4]
 gài zi cover / lid / shell
 pào jī to shell / to bombard / bombardment
 tuō ké to break out of an eggshell / to molt / to remove the husk / to shell
 hòu gài back cover / shell (of crab etc)
 dàn crossball / bullet / shot / shell / ball
 jiè to introduce / to lie between / between / shell / armor
 qiào shell / carapace / crust (earth's crust etc) / also pr. [ke2]
 bāo to peel / to skin / to shell / to shuck
 quán jade / shell
 ké r shell / crust
  hollow core / shell
 kōng ké gōng sī Shell
 Qiào pái gōng sī Shell (oil company)
 bù fen part (of a whole) / piece / section / share / shell (Unix)
 wài ké envelope / outer shell / hull / cover / case
 pào dàn artillery shell / CL:枚[mei2]
 jiāo qián to pay up / to shell out / to hand over the money to cover sth
 dài zi belt / band / ribbon / strap / girdle / (coll.) audio or video tape / Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri) / comb pen shell (Atrina pectinata)
 wài céng outer layer / outer shell
 liú dàn high explosive shell / grenade
 dàn piàn shrapnel / shell fragment
 yìng ké crust / hard shell
 guī ké tortoise shell
 jīn chán tuō qiào lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom) / fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell / a crafty escape plan
 jiǎ gǔ tortoise shell and animal bones used in divination / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
 jiǎ qiào carapace / crust / outer shell / also pr. [jia3 ke2]
 dú qì dàn poison gas shell / poison gas grenade
 tuì pí skin cast off during molting / exuvium / to pupate / to molt / to slough / to cast off an old skin or shell
 yē ké coconut shell
 pí bāo gōng sī lit. briefcase company / dummy corporation / shell company / fly-by-night company
 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
 wū guī ké tortoise shell
 zhào míng dàn flare / star shell
 jiè qiào carapace / hard outer shell
 bèi diāo shell carving
 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°
 ké shell / hard carapace / crust (e.g. earth's crust etc)
 yǎ dumb / mute / hoarse / husky / unexploded (of artillery shell etc)
 luó spiral shell / snail / conch
 tuì skin cast off during molting / exuvia / to pupate / to molt / to slough / to cast off an old skin or shell
 fū husk / outside shell of grain
 dàn hén bullet hole / shell hole
 liú xiàn dàn shrapnel shell / shrapnel / also pr. [liu2 san3 dan4]
 xíng tóng xū shè to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)
 luó hào conch / shell as horn for signaling
 bèi qiū shell mound
 biē jiǎ turtle shell
 cǎi bàng painted shell / painting on shell
 jià céng valency shell (chemistry)
 jià diàn zǐ valency electron / outer shell of electrons
 liù jiǎo kuò hào tortoise shell brackets 〔〕
 bǔ jiǎ oracle tortoise shell
 mǔ dàn parent shell (of a cluster bomb)
 dài mào ké tortoise shell
 pí qiào carapace / hard outer shell / also pr. [pi2 ke2]
 pò jiǎ dàn armor piercing shell
 yìng ké guǒ nut / fruit with hard shell
 diàn zǐ céng electron shell (in the atom)
 diàn zǐ céng shù electron shell number (chemistry)
 shè chū huǒ lì outgoing fire / outgoing shell
 shè rù huǒ lì incoming fire / incoming round / incoming shell
  fragmentation shell
  electron shell
 jiǎ gōng sī dummy corporation / shell corporation
  shell clearance
  fragmentation bomb / fragmentation shell
  Shell Boycott campaign
 lóng gōng bèi Rumphius's slit shell (Entemnotrochus rumphii), found in Japan and Taiwan
 bā a kind of shell
 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]
 guī bǎn tortoise plastron / turtle shell
 wǔ tōng bottom bracket shell (in a bicycle frame) / (Buddhism) the five supernatural powers (abbr. for 五神通)
 jiāng yáo zhù (seafood) adductor muscle of a scallop or pen shell
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