蔽 — Chinese character
蔽
bì
to cover, to hide, to shelter
- Pinyin
- bì
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 艹 敝
- Formation
- pictophonetic — grass; meaning component 艹; sound component 敝
- Japanese
- 蔽 as a kanji
Common words with 蔽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 屏蔽 | píng bì | to screen; to block (sth or sb) |
| 隐蔽 (隱蔽) | yǐn bì | to conceal; to hide |
| 遮蔽 | zhē bì | to cover; to hide from view |
| 蒙蔽 | méng bì | to deceive; to hoodwink |
| 掩蔽 | yǎn bì | shelter; screen; cover; protection |
| 衣不蔽体 (衣不蔽體) | yī bù bì tǐ | lit. clothes not covering the body (idiom); fig. poverty-stricken |
| 荫蔽 (蔭蔽) | yìn bì | to be shaded or concealed by foliage; to conceal |
| 遮天蔽日 | zhē tiān bì rì | lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering; omnipresent |
| 障蔽 | zhàng bì | to obstruct |
| 壅蔽 | yōng bì | (literary) to cover; to conceal |
| 屏蔽罐 | píng bì guàn | cask |
| 后掩蔽 (後掩蔽) | hòu yǎn bì | backward masking |
蔽 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Analects 10 · Art of War 1 · Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 2
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 15
- Analects 2.2
- Analects 5.25
- Analects 17.8
- Analects 20.1
- Art of War 2.13–14
- Mencius 2A.2
- Mencius 4B.17
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