"Shield" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yǎn hù to screen / to shield / to cover / protection / cover / CL:面[mian4]
 bāo bì to shield / to harbor / to cover up
 gān (bound form) to have to do with / to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian gan1] / (archaic) shield
 píng bì to screen / to block (sth or sb) / to shield / (protective) shield
 dùn pái shield / pretext / excuse
 hù zhe to protect / to guard / to shield
 dǎng jiàn pái shield / (fig.) excuse
 tǎn hù to shield (a miscreant) from punishment, criticism etc / to take sb's side
 bì yìn to give shade (of a tree etc) / to shield
 dùn shield / (currency) Vietnamese dong / currency unit of several countries (Indonesian rupiah, Dutch gulden etc)
 bì to cover / to shield / to screen / to conceal
 pái raft / shield / stern of junk
 tǎn bì to shield / to harbor / to cover up
 zhē hù bǎn shield / protective board
 zhē yáng to shield from the sun
 bǎo hù céng ozone shield / protective ozone shield
 zhòu sī dùn Zeus's shield / Aegis combat system (US missile guidance)
 yǐng bì spirit wall (screen wall used to shield an entrance in traditional Chinese architecture)
 chún cài water shield (Brasenia schreberi), an edible water plant
 guān guān xiāng hù officials shield one another (idiom) / a cover-up
 lā dà qí zuò hǔ pí lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom) / fig. to borrow sb's prestige / to take the name of a great cause as a shield
 bì yīn to give shade (of a tree etc) / to shield
 yǐ zǐ zhī máo , gōng zǐ zhī dùn lit. use sb's spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子) / turning a weapon against its owner / fig. to attack an opponent using his own devices / hoist with his own petard
 tóng chì mù Homoptera (insect suborder including cicadas, aphids, plant-hoppers, shield bugs etc)
 fāng xì (arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot
 Jīn dùn Gōng chéng Golden Shield Project, information system for censorship and surveillance, thought to include the Great Firewall of China 防火長城|防火长城[Fang2 huo3 Chang2 cheng2] as a component
 xì (arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot
  Operation Protection Shield
  Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Preferred Provider Organization
  ozone shield / protective ozone shield
  security shield
  biological shield
  Operation Defensive Shield
 fáng rè céng heat shield / thermal shield
  heat shield / thermal shield
  International Committee of the Blue Shield
  Chernobyl Shield
  human shield
 fáng bào dùn riot shield
𨰿 xì (arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot
𨰿 fāng xì (arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot
 rén dùn human shield
 ròu dùn human shield / (gaming) tank / meat shield
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