COVER 覆蓋
CONCEAL something by PUTTING something ABOVE it.
HIDECONCEALVEIL
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for any mode of covering something for any purpose or in any way is fù 覆. The covering agent can be animate or inanimate, but typically the purpose of the covering is protection.
2. Bèi 被 is to cover all over, typically in order as to protect from outside impact of cold etc.. The covering agent is typically human.
3. Bì 蔽 (cog. bì4 庇 "protect") is to cover so as to keep from physical or intellectual sight, and this may be said freely of animate and inanimate subjects to whom the covering effect is attributed.
4. Yǎn 掩 / 揜 is an informal word which focusses on the deliberate act by a human, executed with his hand, which is designed to prevent something from being discovered or from getting in touch with other things.
5. Gài 蓋 is to cover with a lid or the like, typically to protect not against damage but against intrusion of external things. See HIDE
6. Méng 蒙 is typically and primarily to make something obscure by some action of hiding or covering it, often with paper or cloth.
7. Jīn 巾 refers to covering something with a cloth.
8. Zhē 遮 is an elevated term referring to covering up something so as to protect it against interference from the outside and to hinder physical access of hostile forces, and this covering may be by humans or by physical effects.
2. Bèi 被 is to cover all over, typically in order as to protect from outside impact of cold etc.. The covering agent is typically human.
3. Bì 蔽 (cog. bì4 庇 "protect") is to cover so as to keep from physical or intellectual sight, and this may be said freely of animate and inanimate subjects to whom the covering effect is attributed.
4. Yǎn 掩 / 揜 is an informal word which focusses on the deliberate act by a human, executed with his hand, which is designed to prevent something from being discovered or from getting in touch with other things.
5. Gài 蓋 is to cover with a lid or the like, typically to protect not against damage but against intrusion of external things. See HIDE
6. Méng 蒙 is typically and primarily to make something obscure by some action of hiding or covering it, often with paper or cloth.
7. Jīn 巾 refers to covering something with a cloth.
8. Zhē 遮 is an elevated term referring to covering up something so as to protect it against interference from the outside and to hinder physical access of hostile forces, and this covering may be by humans or by physical effects.
Modern Chinese Criteria
遮蓋
掩蓋
覆蓋
被覆
蓋
覆
蒙
罩
掩
蔽
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
掩蓋
覆蓋
被覆
蓋
覆
蒙
罩
掩
蔽
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
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Words
揜 yǎn OC: qromʔ MC: ʔiɛm
掩 yǎn OC: qromʔ MC: ʔiɛm
奄 yǎn OC: qromʔ MC: ʔiɛm 24 AttributionsWD
Yǎn 掩/揜 is an informal word which focusses on the deliberate act by a human, executed with his hand, which is designed to prevent something from being discovered or from getting in touch with other things.
- Word relations
- Object: 耳/EAR
The current standard word for the ear is ěr 耳. - Object: 目/EYE
The general word for the eye, including the area around the eye is mù 目(thus when one shāng mù 傷目 what is injured is not necessarily the eyeball itself). (This is a very flexible word which also has verbal uses. For which see SEE.) - Object: 形/BODY
The general word for the body versus the heart and soul is xíng 形(ant. xīn 心). - Synon: 匿/CONCEAL
Nì 匿 (ant. zhāng 章/彰 "make a display of") refers to the physical removal of things so as to make them inaccessible to others.
- Syntactic words
- vt(oN)cover up something contextually determinate so as to block it
- vtoNcover (e.g. ears, so as to make unable to interact with the outside); hide; retrace (their own traces); block up;
- vtoNto cover with vegetationLZ
- vtoNimperativecover
- vtoNpassivebe covered
覆 fù OC: phuɡ MC: phuk 13 AttributionsWD
The current general word for any mode of covering something for any purpose or in any way is fù 覆. The covering agent can be animate or inanimate, but typically the purpose of the covering is protection.
- Word relations
- Assoc: 蓋/COVER
Gài 蓋 is to cover with a lid or the like, typically to protect not against damage but against intrusion of external things. See HIDE - Oppos: 載/SUPPORT
- Syntactic words
- vt+prep+Nfigurativecover in an abstract generalised sense
- vtoNcover in order to protect what is covered, or sometimes to hide discreetly
- vtoNfigurativeobfuscate
- vtoNfigurativeobfuscate oneself
- vtoNpassivebe covered
被 bèi OC: bralʔ MC: biɛ 9 AttributionsWD
Bèi 被 is to cover all over, typically in order as to protect from outside impact of cold etc.. The covering agent is typically human.
- Syntactic words
- vt+prep+Nfigurativereach across
- vtoNfigurativereach all across
- vtoNpassivebe covered with
- vtoNstativeto cover all over
蓋 gài OC: kaabs MC: kɑi 7 AttributionsWD
Gài 蓋 is to cover with a lid or the like, typically to protect not against damage but against intrusion of external things. See HIDE
- Word relations
- Assoc: 覆/COVER
The current general word for any mode of covering something for any purpose or in any way is fù 覆. The covering agent can be animate or inanimate, but typically the purpose of the covering is protection.
- Syntactic words
- vtoNput the lid on, cover, put a lock on (in order to prevent outside things to get in)
蔽 bì OC: peds MC: piɛi 7 AttributionsWD
Bì 蔽 (cog. bì4 庇 "protect") is to cover so as to keep from physical or intellectual sight, and this may be said freely of animate and inanimate subjects to whom the covering effect is attributed. DOUBLE! SORT OUT!
- Syntactic words
- na cover (for the body etc)
- vtoNcover (the body with clothes etc); screen (the sun)
- vtoNfigurativeencompass, cover abstractly
蒙 méng OC: mooŋ MC: muŋ 6 AttributionsWD
Méng 蒙 is typically and primarily to make something obscure by some action of hiding or covering it, often with paper or cloth.
- Syntactic words
- vtoNto cover; to hide; to conceal
- vtoNmiddle voicebe covered in N
- vtoNpassivebe covered with
巾 jīn OC: krɯn MC: kin 3 AttributionsWD
Jīn 巾 refers to covering something with a cloth.
- Syntactic words
- vadNcovered with a curtain
- vt(oN)cover; keep wrapped in
- vtoNpassivebe wrapped; be covered; be packed
擁 yǒng OC: qoŋʔ MC: ʔi̯oŋ 3 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNto cover; to keep covered
- vtoNmiddle voicebe covered byCH
幭 miè OC: meed MC: met 2 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- ncovering; cover
弇 yǎn OC: qromʔ MC: ʔiɛm 2 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- v[adN]passivecovered place
- vtoNcover
遮 zhē OC: klja MC: tɕɣɛ 2 AttributionsWD
Zhē 遮 is an elevated term referring to covering up something so as to protect it against interference from the outside and to hinder physical access of hostile forces, and this covering may be by humans or by physical effects.
- Syntactic words
- vt(oN)cover the contextually determinate object N
- vtoNblock from sight by placing an object betweent the viewer and the object
掩蓋 yǎn gài OC: qromʔ kaabs MC: ʔiɛm kɑi 2 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- VPtoNcover and protect
冒 mào OC: muuɡs MC: mɑu 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- ncover; covering (for corpses); grave cloth
帷 wéi OC: ɢrul MC: ɦi 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNpassivebe screened (from view)
幕 mù OC: maaɡ MC: mɑk 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNto cover (with clothes; a curtain,...)
幠 hū OC: hmaa MC: huo̝ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNpassiveto be covered
幪 méng OC: mooŋ MC: muŋ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNto cover; to wrap
幬 dào OC: duus MC: dɑu 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNcover
- vtoNpassivebe covered
茅 máo OC: mruu MC: mɣɛu 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNcover with reeds
荒 huāng OC: hmaaŋ MC: hɑŋ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNto cover, overgrow (Karlgren)
蒙葺 méng qì OC: mooŋ skhib MC: muŋ tship 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- VPtoNcover
覆幬 fù dào OC: phuɡ duus MC: phuk dɑu 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- VPtoNcover properly
芘庇 bì bì MC: bjijH pjijH OC: bis pis
庇 bì OC: pis MC: pi 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNto cover; to shade
燾 dào OC: duus MC: dɑu 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNpassivebe covered
襲 xí OC: zɯb MC: zip 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNcover
轖 sè OC: srɯɡ MC: ʂɨk 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- nleather covering for panelling
雝 yōng OC: qoŋ MC: ʔi̯oŋ 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNto cover
掩藏 yǎn cáng OC: qromʔ sɡaaŋ MC: ʔiɛm dzɑŋ 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- VPtoNresultativecover so as to hide
覆上 fù shàng OC: buɡs ɡljaŋʔ MC: bɨu dʑi̯ɐŋ 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- VPt(oN)cover the contextually determinate N
覆蓋 fù gài OC: phuɡ kaabs MC: phuk kɑi 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- VPtoNcover
衣 yì OC: qɯls MC: ʔɨi 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNYIJING: cover, hide
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