壳 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

kéqiào HSK7

casing

壳殼 ké frequency

variant 殻

shell noun: The hard outer covering of something, such as an egg, nut, or crab; also refers to a casing, housing, or shell of a machine or device.; 陆地上的蜗牛也有保护壳。

lùdì shang de wōniú yě yǒu bǎohù ké.

Snails on land also have protective shells.

壳殼 qiào

variant 殻

crust noun: (bound form) hard outer layer or shell, used in technical or formal terms like the Earth's crust

Cross-References

Erhua variant of

壳儿 kér

Same as

壳子 kézi

Frequency

Character

Written text: 1,937th most common 40.4 per million
Movie subtitles: 1,940th most common 21.4 per million appears in 9% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 5.78 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text: 28.0 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 6
HSK 3.0: Level 7
Traditional: 殼殻
Strokes: 7
Unicode: U+58F3

Sources

Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)