掩

to cover up / to close / to surprise

to cover up; to conceal / to close (a door, book etc) / (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid / (literary) to launch a surprise attack

surname Yan

variant of 閹|阉[yan1] / to castrate / variant of 淹[yan1] / to delay

suddenly / abruptly / hastily / to cover / to surround

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

to screen / to shield / to cover / protection / cover / CL:面[mian4]

to conceal / to hide behind / to cover up

bunker (military)

to bury

to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes

to make a surprise attack / to pounce on (an enemy)

to cover up the truth on all sides (idiom)

undisguised

counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

backward masking

hidden from view / alternately hidden and visible / setting off each other

illusion