盖
gàigěhé HSK4

cover

盖 蓋 gài frequency
to cover verb
to cover; to seal; to affix a seal or stamp; to hide or conceal

请不要盖着我的眼睛。

qǐng bù​yào gài zhe wǒ​de yǎn​jing.

Please don't cover my eyes.

lid noun
lid; cover; top; shell of a crab or turtle

妈，你上厕所没有放下马桶盖吗？

mā, nǐ shàng cè​suǒ méi​yǒu fàng xia mǎ​tǒng gài ma?

Mom, did you leave the toilet seat up?

to build verb
to build; to construct; to erect a building

我要在森林里盖间小屋。

wǒ yào zài sēn​lín li gài jiān xiǎo​wū.

I'm going to build a cabin in the woods.

他给自己盖了一栋新房子。

tā gěi zì​jǐ gài le yī dòng xīn fáng​zi.

He built a new house for himself.

to surpass
to surpass; to top; to prevail over
approximately
(literary) about; around; roughly
excellent
(slang) super; marvelous; excellent
to brag
(slang) to brag; to talk nonsense; to talk big
for
(literary) for; because; the reason is that
[introductory particle]
(literary) utterance-initial particle used to introduce a statement
盖 蓋 gě
Ge
Chinese surname
盖 蓋 hé
why not
(archaic) variant of 盍 hé, meaning "why not" or "how can"

Cross-References

Classifier

Same as

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,052nd most common 146.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,052nd most common 94.2 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
36.6 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
54.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
蓋
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+76D6

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