HSK 6 · Verbs

遮挡 zhēdǎng “to block” in Chinese

Traditional 遮擋

What 遮挡 means

  1. to block
  2. to shelter from
  3. to shelter

How to say 遮挡

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale遮zhē1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale挡dǎng3rd tone, dipping

遮挡 in a sentence

  1. 应该为这些花遮挡风雨。

    Yīnggāi wèi zhèxiē huā zhēdǎng fēngyǔ.

    These flowers should be sheltered from the wind and rain.

    Sentence #886591 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 遮挡 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 遮 (zhē) with each of its parts in a different colour
遮zhēto cover up
  • 庶numerous · shùSound part
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuòMeaning part

辶 hints at the meaning (walking); 庶 (shù) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhē.

The character 挡 (dǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
挡dǎngto resist
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 当appropriate · dāng

How to write 遮挡

遮 14 strokes · 挡 9 strokes

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

Words related to 遮挡

Words with 挡

挡dǎng · to block

More words: Common Verbs

展示zhǎnshì · to display展现zhǎnxiàn · to show瞻仰zhānyǎng · to look up to with reverence折zhé · to break折磨zhémo · to torment争夺zhēngduó · to fight over征服zhēngfú · to conquer挣扎zhēngzhá · to struggle

FAQs

遮挡 (zhēdǎng) means “to block” or “to shelter from”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhēdǎng: zhē with a 1st tone, then dǎng with a 3rd 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, 遮挡 is written 遮擋. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhedang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 遮挡 from the suggestions. Typing zhedang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
遮挡 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.