"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
 bì hù asylum / shelter / to shield / to put under protection / to take under one's wing
 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)
 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
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