捂住

wǔzhù
to cover (typically by placing a hand over sb's mouth, nose or ears etc)

CEDICT

to cover up (one's face)

Wiktionary

Examples

她用手捂住了电话的话筒。

She covered the mouthpiece of the phone with her hand.

Source: Tatoeba

汤姆用他的手捂住了他的脸。

Tom covered his face with his hands.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 捂 wǔ
  1. to enclose
  2. to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears)
  3. to cover up (an affair)
  4. contrary
  5. to contradict
2 住 zhù
  1. to live
  2. to dwell
  3. to stay
  4. to reside
  5. to stop
  6. (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)

Related entries

包 bāo
  1. to cover
  2. to wrap
  3. to hold
  4. to include
  5. to take charge of
  6. to contract (to or for)
  7. package
  8. wrapper
  9. container
  10. bag
  11. to hold or embrace
  12. bundle
  13. packet

classifiers: 個, 隻

請包起來。

Please wrap it up.

Source: Tatoeba

壅蔽 yōngbì
  1. (literary) to cover
  2. to conceal
  3. to hide from view
套 tào
  1. to cover
  2. to encase
  3. cover
  4. sheath
  5. to overlap
  6. to interleave
  7. to model after
  8. to copy
  9. formula
  10. harness
  11. loop of rope
  12. (fig.) to fish for
  13. to obtain slyly
  14. classifier for sets, collections
  15. bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names)
  16. tau (Greek letter Ττ)
这套西装合适吗？

Does this suit fit?

Source: Tatoeba

弇 yǎn
  1. to cover
  2. trap
涵蓋 hángài
  1. to cover
  2. to comprise
  3. to include
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