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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *盖* | 盖* | *盖
lid / top / cover / canopy / to cover / to conceal / to build
HSK 4
reggae (loanword) / also written 雷鬼
to cover / to comprise / to include
HSK 7-9
knee / (Internet slang) to kneel down (in admiration)
HSK 7-9
coverage (in botany)
to hide / to cover (one's tracks)
HSK 7-9
to conceal / to hide behind / to cover up
HSK 7-9
cover / lid / shell
HSK 7-9
manhole cover (more formally, 窨井蓋|窨井盖)
to cover
HSK 7-9
to construct a building / (Internet slang) to reply to a thread
Gates (name)
peaked cap / service cap / visor cap
imperial canopy (e.g. domed umbrella-like roof over carriage) / aureole / halo
to seal (with an official stamp) / to stamp / (fig.) to ratify / to put a lid on (a cooking pot) / to cap / to build an extension or additional story
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *盖* | 盖* | *盖
surname Ge
(car) hood / bonnet
fingernail
to meet in passing / to get on well at first meeting
coverslip
to affix a seal / to stamp (a document) / to sign off on sth
unrivalled / matchless
manhole cover
saucepan lid / (satellite) dish
fig. with the connivance of both sides / fig. by mutual consent / cf Wu patriot Huang Gai submits to mock beating at the hands of General Zhou Yu to deceive Cao Cao 曹操 before the 208 battle of Redcliff 赤壁之戰|赤壁之战
to roll up one's bedding; to pack one's things / (fig.) to quit / (fig.) to get fired; to get the sack
lidded teacup
Gatsby
coverage
trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse.
Gestapo
(Tw) slot advertisement / interstitial ad / splash ad
bowl cut (hairstyle)
skull / cranium
to build a house
cap rock
a door-like or hinged cover (e.g. fuel door on a car, access hatch on a machine etc)
Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft
lit. one's accomplishments overshadow the authority of the sovereign (idiom) / fig. to be so influential that one rivals one's leader
back cover / shell (of crab etc)
flip-top (mobile phone, handbag etc) / to rebuild / to renovate
cover / cap / topping / head covering / veil
(coll.) Arisaka Type 38 rifle (Japanese army rifle used 1905-1945)
to cover
Guyana, NE of South America (Tw)
Gaizhou, a county-level city in Yingkou City 營口市|营口市, Liaoning
rice with meat and vegetables
Zoigê County (Tibetan: mdzod dge rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan
don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
peerless talent (idiom); incomparable artistic merit
to block a shot (basketball)
Gates (name)
lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom) / fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
name of "cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14) / see also
Gai county in Liaoning
mulch
to pack one's things and leave
bottle cap
don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
(dialect) knee
rice with meat and vegetables
cap of mushroom
to fold (poker)
leaf mustard
Mekit nahiyisi (Makit county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
pars perculairs
stealthily / clandestinely
to build (esp. with simple materials) / to knock together (a temporary shed) / to rig up
bedroll
to coat / to mask / to plaster over
Zoigê County (Tibetan: mdzod dge rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan
to affix a seal / to stamp (a document)
probability
Sumgayit, city in Azerbaijan
ice sheet
to submerge / to flood / to drown out
tarpaulin fabric
Geithner (name) / Timothy Geithner (1961-), US banker, Treasury Secretary 2009-2013
tiling (of roofs, floors, walls etc)
coverage
roof / lid
to drivel (Tw)
to spread evenly over
bedding; bedclothes
to block a shot (basketball) / (dialect) excellent / fantastic
slider phone
Sergei (name)
pucker-type lid (cup lid with a spout for sipping)
block (basketball)
lit. splitting the head and covering the face (idiom); fig. pelting (with rain etc) / showering down
crown of the head
Laguerre (name) / Edmond Laguerre (1834-1886), French mathematician
al-Qaeda
skull / cranium
al-Qaeda
cap / seal / cover / to cover / blocked shot (basketball)
Gaelic / Geier or Gayer (name)
kneecap
Gaelic (language)

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