蝉蜕 (蟬蛻) chántuì

chántuì noun cicada slough
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Figuratively, to free oneself or to extricate oneself from (CC-CEDICT '蟬蛻')

Word is mentioned most frequently in

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• 卷四十七 Scroll 47 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
• 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 3
• 卷十五 Scroll 15 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
• 卷十四 Scroll 14 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
• 卷五 Scroll 5 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
• 辨騷第五 Volume 5: Analysis of Sao The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons 文心雕龍 — count: 1
• 第五十六回 Chapter 56 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 1
• 卷六十 Scroll 60 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
• 卷五十五 列傳第二十五 夏侯湛 潘岳 張載 Volume 55 Biographies 25: Xiahou Zhan; Pan Yue; Zhang Zai Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 1
• 卷四十九 王充王符仲長統列傳 Volume 49: Biographies of Wang Chong, Wang Fu, Zhongchang Tong Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1

Collocations

• 谓蝉蜕 (謂蟬蛻) 皆謂蟬蛻登仙 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百〇 列傳第七十 王彌 張昌 陳敏 王如 杜曾 杜弢 王機 祖約 蘇峻 孫恩 盧循 譙縱 Volume 100 Biographies 70: Wang Mi; Zhang Chang; Chen Min; Wang Ru; Du Ceng; Du Tao; Wang Ji; Zu Yue; Su Jun; Sun En; Lu Xun; Qiao Zong — count: 2
• 衣冠蝉蜕 (衣冠蟬蛻) 把衣冠蟬蛻 — The Scholars 儒林外史, 第五十五回 Chapter 55 — count: 2
• 蝉蜕蛇 (蟬蛻蛇) 蟬蛻蛇解 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷七　精神訓 Chapter 7: Spirit — count: 2