to cover

to shield; to screen; to conceal

grass (艹) + phonetic (敝) = to cover and conceal

Vegetation or foliage naturally conceals what lies beneath it. 敝 lends the sound bì; the grass radical carries the sense of covering over.

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GrassSemantic

树叶把阳光遮了一半。

shù yè bǎ yáng guāng zhē bì le yī bàn。

The leaves blocked out half of the sunlight.

浓雾遮了远处的山,什么都看不清。

nóng wù zhē bì le yuǎn chù de shān,shén me dōu kàn bu qīng。

The thick fog screened the distant mountains, and nothing could be seen clearly.

Words with 蔽

遮天蔽日

zhē tiān bì rì

lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering

遮蔽

zhē bì

to cover

障蔽

zhàng bì

to obstruct

隐蔽

yǐn bì

to conceal

隐蔽强迫下载

yǐn bì qiǎng pò xià zǎi

drive-by download (a form of malware booby-trap)

一言以蔽之

yī yán yǐ bì zhī

one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short

壅蔽

yōng bì

(literary) to cover

子网屏蔽码

zǐ wǎng píng bì mǎ

subnet mask (computing)

屏蔽

píng bì

to screen

屏蔽罐

píng bì guàn

cask

后掩蔽

hòu yǎn bì

backward masking

掩蔽

yǎn bì

shelter; screen; cover; protection

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