遮 (zhē)
to cover; to block; to hide
How 遮 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 辶 — walk
- Traditional
- 遮
- Simplified
- 遮 (unchanged)
Components
- 辶 walk
- 广 house on cliff
- 廿 two hands/twenty
- 灬 fire
Common words using 遮
- 口無遮攔 kǒuwúzhēlán
- to blab; to shoot one's mouth off; to commit a gaffe
- 遮住 zhēzhù
- to cover (up); to block; to obstruct
- 遮掩 zhēyǎn
- to cover; to mask; to cover up or conceal (the truth etc)
- 遮擋 zhēdǎng
- to shelter; to shelter from
- 遮瑕膏 zhēxiágāo
- concealer (cosmetic)
- 遮蓋 zhēgài
- to hide; to cover (one's tracks)
- 一手遮天 yīshǒuzhētiān
- lit. to hide the sky with one hand; to hide the truth from the masses
- 旁遮普省 pángzhēpǔshěng
- Punjab province of Pakistan
- 遮天蔽日 zhētiānbìrì
- lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering; omnipresent; of universal importance
- 遮羞 zhēxiū
- to cover up one's embarrassment; to hush up a scandal
- 遮羞布 zhēxiūbù
- G-string; loincloth; fig. last semblance
- 遮蔽 zhēbì
- to cover; to hide from view; to obstruct or block
遮 in a sentence
外面雨很大，快用傘遮一下。
Wàimiàn yǔ hěn dà, kuài yòng sǎn zhē yīxià.
“The rain is heavy outside; quickly use an umbrella to cover yourself.”
How common is 遮?
遮 is the 2,130th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.6% of all running text.
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