遮遮掩掩

zhēzhēyǎnyǎn

idiom #17,108

Meanings

HSK 3

他说话总是遮遮掩掩，让人很不舒服。

Tā shuōhuà zǒngshì zhēzheyǎnyǎn, ràng rén hěn bù shūfu.

He always speaks evasively, which makes people uncomfortable.

HSK 4

你别遮遮掩掩的，到底怎么回事？

Nǐ bié zhēzheyǎnyǎn de, dàodǐ zěnme huíshì?

Stop being so secretive - what's really going on?

grammar

This is an AABB reduplication pattern (遮掩 → 遮遮掩掩), which intensifies the meaning and adds a sense of continuous or habitual behavior.

遮 zhē

掩 yǎn