蔽 (bì): to cover, to hide
蔽 (bì) is a Chinese character meaning “to cover, to hide.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 艹 (semantic) and 敝 (phonetic). It ranks #2084 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 蔽 grass. Its radical form 艹 (grass) appears in many related characters such as 花 (huā, flower), 茶 (chá, tea), 菜 (cài, vegetable, dish).
Definitions
- to cover, to hide
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隐蔽 | yǐn bì | to conceal |
| 蒙蔽 | méng bì | to deceive |
| 屏蔽 | píng bì | to screen |
| 遮蔽 | zhē bì | to cover |
| 掩蔽 | yǎn bì | shelter |
| 遮天蔽日 | zhē tiān bì rì | lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom) |
| 衣不蔽体 | yī bù bì tǐ | lit. clothes not covering the body (idiom) |
| 一言以蔽之 | yī yán yǐ bì zhī | one word says it all (idiom, from Analects) |
| 蔽身处 | bì shēn chù | shelter |
| 隐蔽强迫下载 | yǐn bì qiǎng pò xià zǎi | drive-by download (a form of malware booby-trap) |
| 子网屏蔽码 | zǐ wǎng píng bì mǎ | subnet mask (computing) |
| 后掩蔽 | hòu yǎn bì | backward masking |
| 核屏蔽 | hé píng bì | nuclear shielding |
| 障蔽 | zhàng bì | to obstruct |
| 蔽芾 | bì fèi | luxuriant |
蔽 appears in 18 compound words: 11 as the first character, 56 as the last, and 33 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 蔽 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
大树遮蔽了阳光，地上很凉快。
Dà shù zhēbì le yángguāng, dìshang hěn liángkuai.
The big tree blocks the sunlight; it's very cool on the ground.
...人机炸俄最大石油出口港! 4油槽起火浓烟蔽天 防空系统、雷达也挨轰
. . . rén jī zhà é zuì dà shí yóu chū kǒu gǎng ! 4 yóu cáo qǐ huǒ nóng yān bì tiān fáng kōng xì tǒng , léi dá yě āi hōng
...Drones strike Russia's largest oil export terminal! Four oil tanks are on fire, with thick smoke blanketing the sky; air defense systems and radar installations have also been hit
不要被外貌蒙蔽了。
Bù yào bèi wàimào méngbì le.
Don't be fooled by appearances.
在云的遮蔽下无法见到月亮。
Zài yún de zhēbì xià wúfǎ jiàndào yuèliang.
The moon is invisible behind the clouds.
她被爱情蒙蔽了双眼。
Tā bèi àiqíng méngbì le shuāngyǎn.
She is blinded by love.
但愿我能找到在我的博客上屏蔽评论的办法。
Dànyuàn wǒ néng zhǎodào zài wǒ de bókè shàng píngbì pínglùn de bànfǎ.
I wish I could figure out how to disable comments on my blog.
山谷中，薄雾如白色羽毛般缓缓升腾，化作一团白云，遮蔽了一切。
Shāngǔ zhōng, bówù rú báisè yǔmáo bān huǎnhuǎn shēngténg, huàzuò yī tuán báiyún, zhēbì le yīqiè.
Down in the valley a mist like a white feather rose gently into a white cloud, and obscured everything.
Character Family
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