HSK 6 · Verbs

隐瞒 yǐnmán “to conceal” in Chinese

Traditional 隱瞞

What 隐瞒 means

  1. to conceal
  2. to hide (the truth)
  3. to hide (a taboo subject)
  4. to cover up the truth

How to say 隐瞒

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale隐yǐn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale瞒mán2nd tone, rising

隐瞒 in a sentence

  1. 我对你从不隐瞒。

    Wǒ duì nǐ cóngbù yǐnmán.

    I never hide anything from you.

    Sentence #4789624 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我总是觉得她在隐瞒东西。

    Wǒ zǒngshì juéde tā zài yǐnmán dōngxi.

    I always felt she was hiding something.

    Sentence #9054932 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 公司的职员设法隐瞒，但真相不久便水落石出了。

    Gōngsī de zhíyuán shèfǎ yǐnmán, dàn zhēnxiàng bùjiǔ biàn shuǐluòshíchū le.

    The company’s staff tried to cover it up, but the truth soon came out.

    Sentence #358988 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 隐瞒 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 隐 (yǐn) with each of its parts in a different colour
隐yǐnsecret; hidden; concealed; crypto-
  • 阝place
  • 急anxious · jí
The character 瞒 (mán) with each of its parts in a different colour
瞒mánto conceal from
  • 目eye · mùMeaning part
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎo
  • 两two · liǎng

目 hints at the meaning (eye); 㒼 () hints at the sound. Compare it with mán.

How to write 隐瞒

隐 11 strokes · 瞒 15 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

隐瞒 (yǐnmán) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 隐瞒 (yǐnmán). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 隐瞒

Words with 隐

隐蔽yǐnbì · hidden隐约yǐnyuē · faint隐私yǐnsī · privacy隐患yǐnhuàn · hidden danger

More words: Thinking & Talking

宣扬xuānyáng · to publicise演绎yǎnyì · to deduce验证yànzhèng · to verify意料yìliào · expectation引用yǐnyòng · to quote意识yìshi · consciousness意味着yìwèizhe · to mean拥护yōnghù · to support

FAQs

隐瞒 (yǐnmán) means “to conceal” or “to hide (the truth)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yǐnmán: yǐn with a 3rd tone, then mán with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 隐瞒 is written 隱瞞. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yinman with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 隐瞒 from the suggestions. Typing yinman into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
隐瞒 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.