遮 — Chinese character
遮
zhē
to cover, to protect, to shield
- Pinyin
- zhē
- Radical
- 162 ⾡ (Walk)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 辶 庶
- Formation
- pictophonetic — walk; meaning component 辶; sound component 庶
- Japanese
- 遮 as a kanji
Common words with 遮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 遮住 | zhē zhù | to cover (up); to block |
| 遮掩 | zhē yǎn | to cover; to mask |
| 遮蔽 | zhē bì | to cover; to hide from view |
| 遮盖 (遮蓋) | zhē gài | to hide; to cover (one's tracks) |
| 遮挡 (遮擋) | zhē dǎng | to shelter; to shelter from |
| 遮阳 (遮陽) | zhē yáng | to shield from the sun |
| 遮遮掩掩 | zhē zhē yǎn yǎn | to be secretive; to try to cover up (idiom) |
| 遮羞布 | zhē xiū bù | loincloth; (fig.) fig leaf |
| 一手遮天 | yī shǒu zhē tiān | lit. to hide the sky with one hand; to hide the truth from the masses |
| 遮荫 (遮蔭) | zhē yīn | to provide shade; Taiwan pr. [zhe1yin4] |
| 遮羞 | zhē xiū | to cover up one's embarrassment; to hush up a scandal |
| 遮天蔽日 | zhē tiān bì rì | lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering; omnipresent |
English words written with 遮
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.