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祕

mì

secret, mysterious

Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 必 represents the sound.

Components
礻 meaning component

礻  Meaning component

shì

  

show

礻 is a component form of 示.

必 sound component

必  Sound component

bì

  

surely

Evolution

祕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
祕 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
祕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

祕  

mì

mysterious, secret, abstruse

秘 (祕) 

mì

variant of 秘[mì]

Most common words with 祕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

秘密

secret

神秘

mysterious

秘书

secretary

秘书长

secretary-general

秘

secret

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 51.8341% of movies

738th most common character in movies

896th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Simplified

秘

Unicode

U+7955

Shuowen

“祕，神也。从示，必聲。”


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