蝉蜕 chántuì cicada slough Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 蝉蜕 蟬蛻 chántuì cicada slough The discarded shell or skin of a cicada larva after it becomes an adult, used in traditional medicine to free oneself To extricate oneself from a situation; to cast off old constraints to pass away To shed one's mortal coil; specifically used in a religious context to describe attaining immortality or the death of a monk Frequency Written text 0.182 per million Cross-References Same as 蝉衣 chányī Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
蝉蜕 蟬蛻 chántuì cicada slough The discarded shell or skin of a cicada larva after it becomes an adult, used in traditional medicine to free oneself To extricate oneself from a situation; to cast off old constraints to pass away To shed one's mortal coil; specifically used in a religious context to describe attaining immortality or the death of a monk Frequency Written text 0.182 per million Cross-References Same as 蝉衣 chányī Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
