掩
yǎn HSK7

to cover (with the hand)

掩 yǎn
to cover verb
to cover up; to hide or conceal; to shield from view

所有人都掩住了鼻子。

suǒ​yǒu​rén dōu yǎn zhù le bí​zi.

Everyone covered their noses.

to close
to shut or close a door, window, or book; often used when leaving something slightly ajar
to pinch
(colloquial) to get one's fingers or belongings caught or nipped when closing a door or lid
to ambush
(literary) to launch a surprise attack on an unprepared opponent; to sneak up on and capture
to stop
(literary) to cease or suppress, such as stopping music or silencing rumors

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,514th most common 70.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,427th most common 48.8 per million appears in 23% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.61 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
8.59 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+63A9

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