Chinese Character Wiki
密

mì

secret

Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 宓 represents the sound.

Components
宓 sound component

宓  Sound component

mì

  

quiet

山 meaning component

山  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

Evolution

密 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
密 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
密 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
密 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

密  

mì

dense, thick, close; intimate; secret; confidential; close; thick; dense

密  

Mì

surname Mi; name of an ancient state

Most common words with 密
Freq.
Word
Meaning

秘密

secret

密码

secret code

密切

close

密

secret

亲密

intimate

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

嘧

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mri[t]

mit

mì

dense


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 68.2204% of movies

451st most common character in movies

591st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5BC6

Shuowen

“密，山如堂者。从山，宓聲。”


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