Chinese Character Wiki

蔽

bì

cover

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 敝 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

敝 sound component

敝  Sound component

bì

  

worn out

Evolution

蔽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蔽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
蔽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蔽  

bì

cover, hide, conceal; shelter; to cover; to shield; to screen; to conceal

Most common words with 蔽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

隐蔽

to conceal

屏蔽

to screen

蒙蔽

to deceive

蔽

to cover

遮蔽

to cover

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pe[t]-s

pjiejH

bì

cover (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.7184% of movies

2408th most common character in movies

2121st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+853D

Shuowen

“蔽，蔽蔽，小艸也。从艸，敝聲。”


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