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殼

ké, qiào

casing

Phonosemantic compound. 几 represents the meaning and 㱿 represents the sound.

Components
几 meaning component

几  Meaning component

jī, jǐ

  

small table

A table is considered to be a hard object, much like a casing.

㱿 sound component

㱿  Sound component

què

  

to strike from above

Definitions

壳 (殼) 

ké

casing, shell, husk, hull, skin

壳 (殼) 

qiào

shell; carapace; crust (earth's crust etc); also pr. [ké]

Most common words with 殼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

壳

shell

外壳

envelope

弹壳

ammunition case

贝壳

shell

甲壳

carapace

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[kʰ]ˤrok

khaewk

què

hollow shell, hollow


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.4506% of movies

1940th most common character in movies

1937th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

壳

Unicode

U+6BBC


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