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KANJI
殻
shell
husk, hull, casing, pod, chaff
Kun'yomi
からkara
On'yomi
かくkaku
Example sentences
ピーナッツは殻からを剥むいてから食たべるのが一般いっぱん的てきです。
It is common to eat peanuts after shelling them.
彼かれは人前ひとまえで話はなすのが苦手にがてで、いつも自分じぶんの殻からに閉とじこもりがちだ。
He is not good at speaking in front of people and tends to withdraw into his shell.
長年ながねん放置ほうちされていた建物たてものは、内装ないそうが全すべて朽くち果はて、ただの殻からと化かしていた。
The building, which had been left abandoned for many years, had all its interior rotten away, becoming just an empty shell.

Practice exercises

1
抜ぬけ殻
slough; cast-off shell/skin
Answer
ぬけがら
2
殻
Answer
からかく
3
殻
Answer
shellhuskhullcasing
4
貝かい殻
seashell
Answer
かいがら
5
殻を破やぶる
to break out of one's shell; to break free from convention
Answer
からをやぶる
6
地ち殻
earth's crust (geology)
Answer
ちかく