IDENTITY
掩yǎnto cover; to hide
HSK 6Top 1450
CORE MEANING
to cover; to hide
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to cover; to concealHSK6
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 扌hand radical (shǒu)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰扌奄
- hand
- gives the sound yǎn
USAGE
Common words
掩盖yǎngàito cover up
掩护yǎnhùto shield
Graded examples
他用手掩住耳朵。Tā yòng shǒu yǎn zhù ěrduo.HSK6
He covered his ears with his hands.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 淹
LEARNING
Memory aid
The hand (扌) spreading wide (奄) — covering, concealing.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1450
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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