bì

蔽 (bì) is a Chinese word meaning “to cover; to shield; to screen”.

Meanings

  1. 1to cover
  2. 2to shield
  3. 3to screen
  4. 4to conceal

Related words

隐蔽to conceal蒙蔽to deceive屏蔽to screen遮蔽to cover掩蔽shelter; screen; cover; protection遮天蔽日lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering衣不蔽体lit. clothes not covering the body (idiom)一言以蔽之one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short后掩蔽backward masking壅蔽(literary) to cover子网屏蔽码subnet mask (computing)屏蔽罐cask

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