蓋

surname Ge

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

variant of 盍[he2]

why not

grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 zi4 tou2 r5]

(car) hood / bonnet

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

back cover / shell (of crab etc)

ice sheet

fingernail

peaked cap / service cap / visor cap

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

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

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