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HSK
secrets / private business / privacy
HSK 6
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
to conceal / to hide / covert / under cover
HSK 7-9
to hide oneself / invisible (person or online status)
HSK 7-9
to conceal / to hide (a taboo subject) / to cover up the truth
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
invisible
HSK 7-9
vague; faint; indistinct
HSK 7-9
sth one wishes to keep secret / ulterior motive / a subject best avoided
HSK 7-9
to conceal one's identity / living incognito
to bear patiently / to endure silently / to forbear
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  *隐* | 隐* | *隐
(bound form) secret; hidden; concealed; crypto-
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  *隐* | 隐* | *隐
to lean upon
to live in seclusion
faint / indistinct
to conceal one's identity / living incognito
recessive gene
to retire (from society, esp. from politics) / to vanish
to contain in a concealed form / to keep covered up / implicit
secret; hidden
vague / ambiguous / veiled / obscure
hermit
to live in seclusion / reclusive / hermit / recluse
hidden anguish; secret suffering / (medicine) dull pain
rove beetle
secret concern / private worry
metaphor
glimpse (of something hidden)
(idiom) vaguely; faintly; indistinctly
monastery (Christian) / abbey
an unmentionable illness (e.g. venereal disease)
to cover up / to hide / to conceal
to hide / to lie low
cryptorchidism; undescended testis
(to fire) innuendo / to insinuate
recluse / hermit / used for homophone 癮君子|瘾君子, opium addict
to set off one another
to hide / to conceal and avoid (contact) / to keep sth concealed
(idiom) to highlight sb's good points but omit to mention their faults
to disappear from view / to live in seclusion
legendary grass conferring invisibility / fig. to conceal oneself or one's plans
a secret / sth best not told to anyone / confidential information
equivocal speech / to use vague or ambiguous language
monasticism
implied meaning
appearing and disappearing / dimly visible / intermittent / implicit (but not clearly present)
a feint / a hidden way of doing sth
occult blood (in medicine, fecal blood from internal bleeding)
to disappear / to hide
to fade away / to vanish / to disappear
protective coloration (esp. of insects) / camouflage
privacy right
to keep one's emotions inside oneself / to restrain one's emotions
contact lens / CL: 隻|只,
insidious
Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus)
(immunology) cryptotope; cryptic epitope
to ache dully
a cover-up
hidden pond or pool
steganography
burning with no flame / fire beneath the surface / hidden combustion
implicit function
monk (Christian)
to cover up (a matter that should be reported to the authorities)
shelter / hiding place
faint; indistinct
a skull with sunken cheek bone / cryptozygous
to live incognito
a secret
to be married but keep it secret from family, colleagues or the general public
secret; hidden
to keep one's emotions inside oneself / to restrain one's emotions
not to report sth / to keep sth secret
cryptozoology
to vanish gradually / to disappear / to fade out
Cryptozoic / geological eon before the appearance of abundant fossils / hidden life, as opposed to Phanerozoic
not to tell others of one's illness
too embarrassing to mention
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
drive-by download (a form of malware booby-trap) / silent drive-by download
secret language / codeword
to hold back from saying precisely what is on one's mind
cross symbol (×), used to replace a character one does not wish to display
hidden tracks
erhua variant of 隱身草|隐身草
intermittent target


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