蓋

蓋 (radical 140, 艸+10, 14 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 13 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿土戈廿 (TGIT), four-corner 4410₇, composition ⿱艹盍)

• KangXi: page 1051, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31652
• Dae Jaweon: page 1513, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3260, character 13
• Unihan data for U+84CB

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kaːbs, *kaːb, *ɡaːb) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 盍 (OC *ɡaːb) — a thatch.

盍 is the original character for the “cover” sense. However, because it was borrowed to mean “why not”, the scope of senses that 蓋 covered expanded to include the “cover” sense (and its extended meanings).

蓋

1. to cover; to conceal

   蓋被 / 盖被 [Min Nan]  ―  kah-phōe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to put on a blanket

2. (figuratively) to cover up; to conceal
3. (Min Nan) to put on; to apply
4. to stamp; to affix (a seal)
5. to overwhelm; to surpass
6. to build; to construct
7. to talk nonsense; to chatter
8. cover; cap; lid
9. shell (of a turtle, crab, etc.)
10. ^† thatch; straw mat
11. ^† canopy
12. (dialectal) excellent; fantastic
13. (Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Southern Sixian Hakka) very

    • 該係蓋久蓋久个以前，𠊎還蓋細蓋細个時節，𠊎還蓋細蓋細个時節 [Hakka, trad.]
      该系盖久盖久个以前，𠊎还盖细盖细个时节，𠊎还盖细盖细个时节 [Hakka, simp.]

      From: 2006, 林姿君, 匍背 (Hunchback)

      Te he koi kiú koi kiú e yî-chhièn, ngài hàn koi se koi se e sṳ̀-chiet, ngài hàn koi se koi se e sṳ̀-chiet [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]

      That is a very, very long time ago, when I was still very, very small, when I was still very, very small.

    • 腔口趣味雖然不知講啥，勿擱實在蓋好聽。 [Taiwanese, trad.]
      腔口趣味虽然不知讲啥，勿搁实在盖好听。 [Taiwanese, simp.]

      From: 2016, 陳隨意, 鹿港思帶路

      Khiuⁿ-kháu chhù-bī sui-liân m̄-chai kóng siáⁿ, m̄-koh si̍t-chāi kài hó-thiaⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

      The accent is interesting; though not understandable, it actually sounds really nice.

14. ^† probably; roughly
15. ^† for; because
16. A surname​.

蓋

1. ^† Alternative form of 盍 (hé, “to cover; to join together; thatch”).
2. ^† Alternative form of 闔／阖 (hé, “door leaf”).

蓋

1. (～邑) (historical) Ge (a city in the ancient state of Qi in modern-day Yishui County, Shandong)
2. A surname​.

蓋

1. ^† Alternative form of 盍 (hé, “why not”).

• “Entry #10820”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. cover
2. lid
3. flap

• Go-on: かい (kai); ごう (gō)
• Kan-on: かい (kai); こう (kō)
• Kan’yō-on: がい (gai, Jōyō)
• Kun: ふた (futa, 蓋, Jōyō); けだし (kedashi, 蓋し); おおう (ōu, 蓋う); かさ (kasa, 蓋)

蓋 (hiragana ふた, katakana フタ, rōmaji futa)

1. lid; cap; cover

   箱 (はこ)のふた ― hako no futa ― box lid

   ビンの蓋 (ふた) ― bin no futa ― cap of a bottle

蓋 • (gae, hap) (hangeul 개, 합, revised gae, hap, McCune–Reischauer kae, hap, Yale kay, hap)

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蓋 (cái)

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