Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 蜕

skin cast off during molting
exuvia
to pupate
to molt
to slough
to cast off an old skin or shell

cicada slough
fig. to free oneself
to extricate oneself from

(of insects) to undergo metamorphosis
(fig.) to be transformed
to metamorphose
to become degraded

to exuviate; to molt

to transform
to morph
to degenerate
metamorphosis
transmutation
transformation
decay
degeneration

to shed skin
to leave one's mortal envelope
remains (of a priest)

skin cast off during molting
exuvium
to pupate
to molt
to slough
to cast off an old skin or shell

see 蛻殼／蜕壳 (tuìké)

tuìhuàbiànzhì

(idiom) to degenerate (morally); to become depraved