蔽
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to cover; to shield; to screen; to conceal
14 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,569 U+853D
How 蔽 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 (semantic, “grass”) + 敝 (phonetic, bì)
How to remember it
shelter · Heisig RSH #2041
flower + shredder
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 敝
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 敝 (bì) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 敝 sound component | bì | to break, to destroy; ruined, tattered |
| 撇 | piě | to abandon, to discard |
| 鳖 | biē | turtle |
| 憋 | biē | to stifle, to restrain, to choke; to suppress one's inner feelings |
| 瞥 | piē | to take a fleeting glance at |
Words containing 蔽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一言以蔽之 | yī yán yǐ bì zhī | one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short; in a nutshell |
| 衣不蔽体 | yī bù bì tǐ | lit. clothes not covering the body (idiom); fig. poverty-stricken |
| 子网屏蔽码 | zǐ wǎng píng bì mǎ | subnet mask (computing) |
| 蔽身处 | bì shēn chù | shelter |
| 遮天蔽日 | zhē tiān bì rì | lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering; omnipresent; of… |
| 核屏蔽 | hé píng bì | nuclear shielding |
| 蒙蔽 | méng bì | to deceive; to hoodwink |
| 后掩蔽 | hòu yǎn bì | backward masking |
| 隐蔽 | yǐn bì | to conceal; to hide; covert; under cover |
| 屏蔽 | píng bì | to screen; to block (sth or sb); to shield; (protective) shield |
| 屏蔽罐 | píng bì guàn | cask |
| 障蔽 | zhàng bì | to obstruct |
| 遮蔽 | zhē bì | to cover; to hide from view; to obstruct or block; defilade (military) |
| 掩蔽 | yǎn bì | shelter; screen; cover; protection |
| 荫蔽 | yìn bì | to be shaded or concealed by foliage; to conceal; hidden; covert; shade (of a tree) |
| 蔽芾 | bì fèi | luxuriant; lush; young (plants) |
| 壅蔽 | yōng bì | (literary) to cover; to conceal; to hide from view |