蓋 (gài)
to build/to cover/a lid
How 蓋 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 蓋
- Simplified
- 盖
Components
- 艹 grass
- 土 earth
- 厶 private
- 皿 dish
蓋 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- gě
- surname Ge
- gài
- lid; top; cover; canopy
Common words using 蓋
- 掩蓋 yǎngài
- to conceal; to hide behind; to cover up
- 膝蓋 xīgài
- knee
- 覆蓋 fùgài
- to cover
- 加蓋 jiāgài
- to seal (with official stamp); to stamp; fig. to ratify
- 後蓋 hòugài
- back cover; shell (of crab etc)
- 欲蓋彌彰 yùgàimízhāng
- trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse.
- 涵蓋 hángài
- to cover; to comprise; to include
- 翻蓋 fāngài
- flip-top (mobile phone, handbag etc); to rebuild; to renovate
- 華蓋 huágài
- imperial canopy (e.g. domed umbrella-like roof over carriage); aureole; halo
- 蓋上 gàishang
- to cover
- 蓋世 gàishì
- unrivalled; matchless
- 蓋子 gàizi
- cover; lid; shell
蓋 in a sentence
他們要在這裡蓋新房子。
Tāmen yào zài zhèlǐ gài xīn fángzi.
“They are going to build a new house here.”
How common is 蓋?
蓋 is the 1,050th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.9% of all running text.
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