殼
kéqiào HSK7

casing

壳 (殼) ké frequency
shell noun
the natural outer covering of an egg, nut, or certain animals

蛋壳碎了一地。

dàn ké suì le yī dì.

Eggshells were scattered all over the floor.

casing noun
the protective case or housing for a machine, device, or electronic component

这台电脑的金属壳看起来很高级。

zhè tái diàn​nǎo de jīn​shǔ ké kàn​qǐ​lai hěn gāo​jí.

The metal casing of this computer looks very high-end.

壳 (殼) qiào
shell noun
the hard outer covering of an animal or object, typically used in formal or technical compounds

地壳是地球最外层的固体部分。

dì qiào shì dì​qiú zuì wài​céng de gù​tǐ bù​fen.

The Earth's crust is the outermost solid part of the Earth.

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 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
壳
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+6BBC

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)