蔽

See also 芘

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 敝

Han character

蔽 (radical 140 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿火月大 (TFBK), four-corner 4424₈)

1. cover, hide, conceal
2. shelter

References

• KangXi: page 1056, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31888
• Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3277, character 19
• Unihan data for U+853D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蔽 (Yale bai3)

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Japanese

Kanji

蔽

Readings

• On: へい (hei)
• Kun: おおう (oou), おおい (ooi)

Compounds

• 隠蔽 (いんぺい, inpei): concealment
• 掩蔽 (えんへい, enhei): concealment, masking, cloaking

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Korean

Hanja

蔽 (hangeul 폐, revised pye, McCune-Reischauer p'ye, Yale phyey)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蔽 (pinyin bì (bi4), Wade-Giles pi⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蔽 (tế)