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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黑* | 黑* | *黑
black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing)
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *猫* | 猫* | *猫
cat (CL:隻|只) / (dialect) to hide oneself / (loanword) (coll.) modem
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *躲* | 躲* | *躲
to hide / to dodge / to avoid
HSK 5
to play hide-and-seek
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *避* | 避* | *避
to avoid / to shun / to flee / to escape / to keep away from / to leave / to hide from
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *伏* | 伏* | *伏
to lean over / to fall (go down) / to hide (in ambush) / to conceal oneself / to lie low / hottest days of summer / to submit / to concede defeat / to overcome / to subdue / volt
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / (slang) unlucky / hard of hearing
HSK 2
lit. to hide the sky with one hand / to hide the truth from the masses
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *藏* | 藏* | *藏
to conceal / to hide away / to harbor / to store / to collect
HSK 6
to bury / to hide by burying / hidden
HSK 7-9
to be buried in a horse hide (idiom) / to give one's life on the battlefield
hide and seek / peek-a-boo
to conceal / to hide (a taboo subject) / to cover up the truth
HSK 7-9
to hide / to cover (one's tracks)
HSK 7-9
to conceal / to hide behind / to cover up
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *遮* | 遮* | *遮
to cover up (a shortcoming) / to screen off / to hide / to conceal
HSK 7-9
to hide / to conceal / to mask / to shelter / to harbor (i.e. keep sth hidden) / to hide oneself / to lie low / to nestle / hidden / implicit / private / covert / recessed (lighting)
HSK 6
fellmonger / a dealer who works with animal hides and skins
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *潜* | 潜* | *潜
hidden / secret / latent / to hide / to conceal / to submerge / to dive
to cache; to hide supplies (from the enemy)
a wise man looks after his own hide (idiom) / to put one's own safety before matters of principle
to hide / to evade / to dodge / to take shelter / to avoid (difficulties)
HSK 7-9
to hide (as an undercover agent) / an insider (in a gang of thieves) / a mole
to conceal / to hide / covert / under cover
HSK 7-9
animal skin / hide
to hide the head and show the tail (idiom); to give a partial account / half-truths
to hide / to go into hiding / to take refuge
HSK 7-9
to pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner
hide-and-seek (game) / peekaboo (game)
to hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom); fig. modest about one's talents / to hide one's light under a bushel
to conceal one's strengths and bide one's time (idiom) / to hide one's light under a bushel
trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse.
lit. Xiang Zhuang performs the sword dance, but his mind is set on Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 (idiom); refers to 206 BC plot to murder Liu Bang, aka Duke of Pei 沛公 and the future Han emperor, during a sword dance at the Hongmen feast 鴻門宴|鸿门宴 / an elaborate deception to hide malicious intent
to disappear / to hide
to hide / to conceal
to crawl under a table (e.g. as a forfeit for losing a bet or card game); to hide under a table
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *革* | 革* | *革
animal hide / leather / to reform / to remove / to expel (from office)
to cover up / to hide / to conceal
to juggle with words (dishonestly) / to be a hypocrite and hide behind florid rhetoric
to hide oneself / invisible (person or online status)
HSK 7-9
lit. 300 silver taels not hidden here (idiom); fig. to reveal what one intends to hide
hide and seek
to hibernate / to hide away
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *饰* | 饰* | *饰
decoration / ornament / to decorate / to adorn / to hide / to conceal (a fault) / excuse (to hide a fault) / to play a role (in opera) / to impersonate
to hide / to cover up / to conceal
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *匽* | 匽* | *匽
to hide, to secrete, to repress / to bend
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *囥* | 囥* | *囥
(dialect) to hide / to conceal
to hide / to retreat into privacy
to hide / latent image (in photography)
to fade away / to disappear / to hide from view
to roam all over the place / to go into every nook and corner; to infiltrate / (of criminals, enemies etc) to be on the run; to flee and try to hide
nowhere to hide
to eat sb's flesh and sleep on their hide (idiom); to swear revenge on sb / implacable hatred / to have sb's guts for garters
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *庇* | 庇* | *庇
to protect / cover / shelter / hide or harbor
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *薆* | 薆* | *薆
to cover / to hide / to conceal
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *褪* | 褪* | *褪
to slip out of sth / to hide sth in one's sleeve
lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts
donkey-hide gelatin (used in TCM) / Taiwan pr. [a1 jiao1]
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *匿* | 匿* | *匿
to hide
(literary) to cover / to conceal / to hide from view
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *掖* | 掖* | *掖
to tuck (into a pocket) / to hide / to conceal
to hide from public view / to conceal one's identity / to lay low
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *韬* | 韬* | *韬
bow case or scabbard / to hide / military strategy
to vanish / to hide / to cover one's traces
nocturnal / to hide by day and come out at night
to hide
can't avoid / can't hide from / unavoidable
to hide / to conceal and avoid (contact) / to keep sth concealed
to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom); to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing / aiding and abetting wicked deeds
to cover / to hide from view / to obstruct or block / defilade (military)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鞄* | 鞄* | *鞄
to work hides / leather bag
lit. cutting one's stomach to hide a pearl (idiom) / fig. wasting a lot of effort on trivialities
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *閟* | 閟* | *閟
hidden / hide
to hide / to lie low
to hide oneself (as a joke)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *窾* | 窾* | *窾
to conceal / to hide
to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom); to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing / aiding and abetting wicked deeds
to hide / to conceal
pelt / raw hide
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *厞* | 厞* | *厞
to hide / hideout


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