Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- yǎn
English
- shell
- operculum (Latin: little lid)
- a covering flap (in various branches of anatomy)
- (often of crustaceans) lid; flap; cover
粵語
- 蓋（通常係甲殼類動物嘅）
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Variants
Words containing 厴
- 蟹厴haai5 jim2
shell around the abdomen of crab
- 腍厴nam4 jim2
subcostal
- 小厴siu2 jim2
the two sides of the abdomen
- 結厴git3 jim2
- 袋厴doi6 jim2
- 田螺厴tin4 lo2 jim2
operculum, the lid of sea snail used as Chinese medicine
- 冇厴雞籠mou5 jim2 gai1 lung4
a place where you can come and go as you wish; literally: doorless chicken coop; forming a sandwich pun with 自出自入 zi6ceot1zi6jap6