遮掩

Chinese

		cover up (a shortcoming); screen off; to hide cover up (a shortcoming); screen off; to hide; to conceal	cover up; to surprise
trad. (遮掩)		遮	掩
simp. ^#(遮掩)		遮	掩

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhēyǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄜㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ze¹ jim²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chia-iám / jia-iám / lia-iám

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhēyǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄜㄧㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jheyǎn
  - Wade–Giles: chê¹-yen³
  - Yale: jē-yǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeyean
  - Palladius: чжэянь (čžɛjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤ⁵⁵ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ze¹ jim²
  - Yale: jē yím
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dze¹ jim²
  - Guangdong Romanization: zé¹ yim²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛː⁵⁵ jiːm³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia-iám
  - Tâi-lô: tsia-iám
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cia'iarm
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sia³³ iam⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sia⁴⁴⁻²² iam⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jia-iám
  - Tâi-lô: jia-iám
  - Phofsit Daibuun: jia'iarm
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /zia⁴⁴⁻³³ iam⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lia-iám
  - Tâi-lô: lia-iám
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lia'iarm
  - IPA (Taipei): /lia⁴⁴⁻³³ iam⁵³/

Verb

遮掩

to cover; to overspread; to envelop; to disguise
to cover up; to hide; to conceal

Synonyms

(to cover up):

埋葬 (máizàng) (literary, figurative)
掩 (yǎn)
掩蓋／掩盖 (yǎngài) (figurative)
掩藏 (yǎncáng)
掩飾／掩饰 (yǎnshì)
文飾／文饰 (literary)
藏掖 (cángyē)
遮 (literary, or in compounds)
遮蓋／遮盖 (zhēgài)
隱匿／隐匿 (yǐnnì)
隱瞞／隐瞒 (yǐnmán)

Derived terms

遮遮掩掩 (zhēzhēyǎnyǎn)

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