遮
zhēzhě HSK7

cover, conceal

遮 zhē frequency
to cover verb
to cover; to screen; to hide from view; to conceal or cover up (e.g. a shortcoming)

烟把太阳遮起来了。

yān bǎ tài​yang zhē qǐ lai le.

The smoke is blocking the sun.

to block verb
to block; to obstruct; to impede
this
(literary or archaic) used to refer to something nearby; same as 这 zhè
遮 zhě
to cover up
(colloquial) to gloss over; to cover for someone; to stall or put someone off with excuses

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,135th most common 30.6 per million
Movie subtitles
2,155th most common 15.0 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.28 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
9.69 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+906E

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