Chinese symbol for “engulfing”
铺天盖地
pū tiān gài dì
Traditional: 鋪天蓋地
(lit.) eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom); (fig.) arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
The closest CC-CEDICT match for engulfing is 铺天盖地 (pū tiān gài dì), defined as: (lit.) eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom); (fig.) arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 铺天盖地.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 店铺 (店鋪) | diàn pù | store; shop |
| 铺设 (鋪設) | pū shè | to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline); to install (wiring, cable) |
| 商铺 (商鋪) | shāng pù | shop; store |
| 铺路 (鋪路) | pū lù | to pave (with paving stones); to lay a road |
| 铺垫 (鋪墊) | pū diàn | to spread out bedding; bedcover |
| 今天 | jīn tiān | today; the present time; now |
| 每天 | měi tiān | every day |
| 明天 | míng tiān | tomorrow |
| 覆盖 (覆蓋) | fù gài | to cover |
| 地区 (地區) | dì qū | region; area (informal or geographical term); prefecture (in China's administrative system) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “engulfing”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.