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掩饰

yǎn shì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 掩飾

掩饰 (yǎn shì) means "to cover up; to conceal; to mask". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 掩饰 means

1. to cover up
2. to conceal
3. to mask
4. to gloss over

The characters in 掩饰

• 掩yǎnto cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc)…
• 饰shìdecoration; ornament; to decorate

Example sentences

• 你在掩饰什幺？
  What are you hiding?
• 她试图掩饰她的泪水。
  Tā shìtú yǎnshì tā de lèishuǐ.
  She tried to hide her tears.
• 我不能掩饰我的心情。
  I can't hide my feelings.
• 汤姆不能掩饰他的失望。
  Tāngmǔ bù néng yǎnshì tā de shīwàng.
  Tom couldn't conceal his disappointment.
• 不需掩饰她不诚实的事实。
  Bù xū yǎnshì tā bù chéngshí de shìshí.
  There's no disguising the fact that she is dishonest.
• 她笑是为了掩饰自己的恐惧。
  She laughed to cover her fear.

Words containing 掩饰

• 不加掩饰bù jiā yǎn shìundisguised

Sounds the same

Read yǎn shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 演示to demonstrate; to show; presentation

Where 掩饰 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yǎn shì correctly.
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