隠蔽

• 読み: いんぺい
• ローマ字: inpei
• 漢字の分解: 隠 (in/kaku) — hide, conceal; 蔽 (pei/hei) — cover, obstruct, shade
• 発音: /im.peː/

意味

Cover-up; concealment; suppression. The deliberate hiding or obscuring of information, evidence, or wrongdoing.

A compound of 隠 (conceal/hide) and 蔽 (cover/obstruct). Carries strong negative connotations, implying intentional and often unethical acts of hiding the truth, particularly by those in positions of power. Frequently appears in political and corporate scandal reporting. 隠蔽工作 (cover-up operations) and 組織的隠蔽 (systemic concealment) are common collocations.

例文

1. 企業の幹部が事故の実態を隠蔽しようとしたが、内部告発によって発覚した。
2. 組織的な隠蔽が長年続いていたことが判明し、社会に大きな衝撃を与えた。
3. 政府の隠蔽体質を批判する声が高まり、情報公開を求める市民運動が広がった。

使い方ガイド

場面: politics, journalism, law, society, corporate affairs

トーン: critical

起源と歴史

隠 (in, to hide/conceal) + 蔽 (pei/hei, to cover/obstruct). Both characters carry the sense of blocking from view. Used in Chinese and Japanese literary and legal texts for centuries to denote deliberate concealment.

文化的背景

時代: Classical–Contemporary

世代: Adults

社会的背景: General