Chinese Character Wiki
盖

gài, gě

cover

Simplified form of 蓋. Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 盍 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning,simplified component

艹  Meaning Simplified component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

盍 sound,simplified component

盍  Sound Simplified component

hé

  

what? why not?

Evolution

盖 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
盖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

盖 (蓋) 

gài

cover, hide, protect; lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build

盖 (蓋) 

Gě

surname Ge

Most common words with 盖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

盖

lid

覆盖

to cover

膝盖

knee

掩盖

to conceal

涵盖

to cover

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 32.7567% of movies

1052nd most common character in movies

1052nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

蓋

Unicode

U+76D6


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