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Kanji Detail for 掩 - "cover, shield, suddenly"
掩
- Meaning
掩 means "cover, shield, suddenly."
Cover - To hide; to conceal.
Shield - To protect.
Suddenly - Unexpectedly; to surprise.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
cover; conceal
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
to cover (with the hand); shut, conceal; ambush
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc); (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid; (literary) to launch a surprise attack
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to cover up (with a hand); to ambush, to conceal; to shut
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To gather. Narrowing at top is 掩. Vessels with narrow mouths are 掩口. Also, closing doors is 掩門, same meaning. | To cover. Such as 掩蓋, 掩蔽. | Attacking by surprise is 掩. Originally written as 揜.
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