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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 蓋, the traditional character: 盖 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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乔治敦是盖亚那的首都。
Georgetown is the capital of Guyana.
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全城都被雪覆盖住了。
Snow completely covered the town.
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公司的医疗保险覆盖了全部的医疗费用。
The company medical treatment insurance covered all the medical treatment costs.
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地球表面的五分之一被冻土覆盖了。
One fifth of the earth's surface is covered by permafrost.
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地表的四分之三被水覆盖。
Three fourths of the earth's surface is covered with water.
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富士山顶盖满了雪。
The summit of Mt. Fuji was covered in snow.
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山顶被雪覆盖了。
The top of the mountain is covered in snow.
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我会说一点儿苏格兰盖尔语。
I speak a little Scottish Gaelic.