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HSK
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
secrets / private business / privacy
HSK 6
sth one wishes to keep secret / ulterior motive / a subject best avoided
HSK 7-9
invisible
HSK 7-9
to conceal / to hide (a taboo subject) / to cover up the truth
HSK 7-9
to conceal / to hide / covert / under cover
HSK 7-9
vague; faint; indistinct
HSK 7-9
to hide oneself / invisible (person or online status)
HSK 7-9
hidden / crypto- / recessive (gene)
HSK 7-9
a danger concealed within sth / hidden damage / misfortune not visible from the surface
HSK 7-9
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  *隱* | 隱* | *隱
(bound form) secret; hidden; concealed; crypto-
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  *隱* | 隱* | *隱
to lean upon
contact lens / CL: 隻|只,
secret; hidden
Li Shangyin (c. 813-858), Tang poet
faint / indistinct
to cover up / to hide / to conceal
privacy right
to contain in a concealed form / to keep covered up / implicit
metaphor
to live in seclusion
(idiom) faint; indistinct
(idiom) vaguely; faintly; indistinctly
secret concern / private worry
to bear patiently / to endure silently / to forbear
a hidden trouble hard to mention (idiom) / sth too embarrassing to mention / an embarrassing illness
to withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion / to retire
to go back to one's native place and live in seclusion
hermit
an unmentionable illness (e.g. venereal disease)
to vanish gradually / to disappear / to fade out
appearing and disappearing (idiom) / intermittently visible
compassion
hidden anguish; secret suffering / (medicine) dull pain
to live in seclusion / reclusive / hermit / recluse
to hide / to retreat into privacy
Cain (name) / Cain (biblical character), a figure of Judeo-Christian-Muslim mythology
(to fire) innuendo / to insinuate
to hold back from saying precisely what is on one's mind
compassion / empathetic
to disappear from view / to live in seclusion
to hide / to lie low
a secret / sth best not told to anyone / confidential information
to retire (from society, esp. from politics) / to vanish
glimpse (of something hidden)
intermittent / now you see it, now you don't
to hide / to conceal and avoid (contact) / to keep sth concealed
a feint / a hidden way of doing sth
recluse / hermit / used for homophone 癮君子|瘾君子, opium addict
secret language / codeword
implied meaning
occult blood (in medicine, fecal blood from internal bleeding)
to fade away / to vanish / to disappear
Cryptogamae / cryptogamous plant (botany) / plants such as algae 藻類|藻类, moss 苔蘚|苔藓 and fern 蕨類|蕨类 that reproduce by spores 孢子 in place of flowers
(idiom) to highlight sb's good points but omit to mention their faults
to keep one's emotions inside oneself / to restrain one's emotions
secret; hidden
equivocal speech / to use vague or ambiguous language
to live incognito
burning with no flame / fire beneath the surface / hidden combustion
to disappear / to hide
a skull with sunken cheek bone / cryptozygous
monasticism
appearing and disappearing / dimly visible / intermittent / implicit (but not clearly present)
to be married but keep it secret from family, colleagues or the general public
a secret
implicit function
to ache dully
hidden tracks
protective coloration (esp. of insects) / camouflage
hidden pond or pool
insidious
to be concealed by supernatural forces; to disappear mysteriously; (fig.) to be out of the public eye
rove beetle
to keep one's emotions inside oneself / to restrain one's emotions
monastery (Christian) / abbey
to conceal one's identity / living incognito
personal privacy; private matters
an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the woods; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)
an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the wild; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)
appearing and disappearing / intermittently visible
(HK) privacy
Priory of Zion (fictional masonic order)
cryptic epitope (immunology, a protein component that becomes effective when activated by antigen)
monk (Christian)
to conceal one's identity / living incognito
steganography
recessive gene
not to report sth / to keep sth secret
to set off one another
vague / ambiguous / veiled / obscure
cryptozoology
Cryptozoic / geological eon before the appearance of abundant fossils / hidden life, as opposed to Phanerozoic
not to tell others of one's illness
cryptorchidism; undescended testis
to cover up (a matter that should be reported to the authorities)
too embarrassing to mention
drive-by download (a form of malware booby-trap) / silent drive-by download
shelter / hiding place
cross symbol (×), used to replace a character one does not wish to display

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