彌
mí

extensive

弥 (彌) mí
fill adjective
to fill up, overflow, or cover completely

那个骗子编造了一个弥天大谎，骗取了大家的信任。

nà​gè piàn​zi biān​zào le yī gè mí tiān​dà​huǎng, piàn​qǔ le dà​jiā de xìn​rèn.

The swindler fabricated a monstrous lie to gain everyone's trust.

more idiom
to a greater degree; increasingly

他想掩盖事实，结果反而欲盖弥彰。

tā xiǎng yǎn​gài shì​shí, jié​guǒ fǎn'ér yù gài mí zhāng.

He tried to cover up the facts, but it only made them more obvious.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,785th most common 47.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,827th most common 26.0 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.44 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
5.76 per million

Details
Simplified
弥
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+5F4C

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)