盖

gě = g + e3

surname Ge

gài = g + ai4

lid / top / cover / canopy / to cover / to conceal / to build

盖 = 皿 + 羊 : Guy Fawkes (g) always has to cover (盖) his rice bowl (皿) with cling wrap in the airplane's bathroom (ai4), otherwise the sheep (羊) will eat all the rice and get a stomach ache.

盖 character breakdown

盖
- 皿
- 羊
  - 三
    - 一
    - 二
      - 一
  - 丫

mǐn = mi + (e)n3

dish / vessel / shallow container / rad. no. 108

Marilyn Monroe is eating some rice out of a shallow bowl in the encampment.

yáng = y + ang2

surname Yang

yáng = y + ang2

sheep / goat / CL:頭|头[tou2],隻|只[zhi1]

羊 = 丫 + 三 : Maud Younger is looking for gender equality just inside the anglepod's kitchen—and a dowsing rod is her tool of choice. A sheep sees this and imitates her, using a Cartesian coordinate system as a dowsing rod substitute.

mǐn = mi + (e)n3

(bound form) dish; vessel; shallow container / radical no. 108

Characters with 盖 as component

盖 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 盖

(car) hood / bonnet

lit. splitting the head and covering the face (idiom); fig. pelting (with rain etc) / showering down

ice sheet

peaked cap / service cap / visor cap

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

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[Cao2 Cao1] before the 208 battle of Redcliff 赤壁之戰|赤壁之战[Chi4 bi4 zhi1 Zhan4]

to coat / to mask / to plaster over

name of the "roof" radical 宀[mian2] (Kangxi radical 40)

henbit deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule)

cap / seal / cover / to cover / blocked shot (basketball)

pars perculairs

name of "cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14) / see also 冖[mi4]

peerless talent (idiom); incomparable artistic merit

Laguerre (name) / Edmond Laguerre (1834-1886), French mathematician

to pack and quit / to be sacked

to pack and quit / to get the sack; to get fired

(coll.) Arisaka Type 38 rifle (Japanese army rifle used 1905-1945)

manhole cover (more formally, 窨井蓋|窨井盖[yin4 jing3 gai4])

to meet in passing / to get on well at first meeting

lit. one's accomplishments overshadow the authority of the sovereign (idiom) / fig. to be so influential that one rivals one's leader

Sentences with 盖

盖 currently does not appear in any sentence.