秘

See also: 祕

秘 U+79D8, 秘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79D8 ← 秗 [U+79D7] CJK Unified Ideographs 秙 → [U+79D9]

㊙ U+3299, ㊙ CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH SECRET ← ㊘ [U+3298] Enclosed CJK Letters and Months ㊚ → [U+329A]

Translingual

Presentations of ㊙︎

Text style	Emoji style
㊙︎	㊙️
Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system. Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️

Han character

秘 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹木心竹 (HDPH), four-corner 2390₀, composition ⿰禾必)

Derived characters

• 𱓷, 𦷬, 𥡁, 𢢃

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 851, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24977
• Dae Jaweon: page 1275, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2601, character 7
• Unihan data for U+79D8

Chinese

trad.		秘/祕
simp.		秘/祕
祕 - only used as a surname or in a given name in Simplified Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (必) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
泌	*mpriɡs, *priɡ, *bliɡ
秘	*mpriɡs
毖	*priɡs
閟	*priɡs
柲	*priɡs, *bliːɡ, *priɡ, *bliɡ
鉍	*priɡs, *priɡ
邲	*priɡs, *bliɡ, *briɡ
覕	*pliŋs, *mbliːɡ
咇	*bliːɡ, *priɡ, *bliɡ
苾	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
馝	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
飶	*bliːɡ, *bliɡ
鴓	*mbliːɡ
鮅	*pliɡ, *bliɡ
必	*pliɡ
珌	*pliɡ
佖	*bliɡ, *briɡ
駜	*bliɡ, *briɡ
怭	*bliɡ
妼	*bliɡ
宓	*mriɡ, *mliɡ
樒	*mriɡ
密	*mriɡ
蔤	*mriɡ
滵	*mriɡ
蜜	*mliɡ
謐	*mliɡ
榓	*mliɡ
淧	*mliɡ
瑟	*smriɡ, *smriɡ
璱	*sriɡ
飋	*sriɡ
虙	*blɯɡ

In current form: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mpriɡs) : semantic 禾 + phonetic 必 (OC *pliɡ).

Variant (俗字) of 祕 via 示 → 禾.

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Read mì instead of bì in Mandarin as a result of conflation with 密 (mì) (c.f. 秘密 (mìmì)) (Fu, 1958).

Definitions

秘

1. secret; undisclosed; confidential
2. mysterious; abstruse
3. rare; scarce; extraordinary
4. to keep as a secret
5. to block
6. Short for 秘書／秘书 (mìshū, “secretary”).
7. Short for 秘魯／秘鲁 (Bìlǔ, “Peru”).
8. a surname

Compounds

• 便秘
• 傳神秘要／传神秘要
• 汪秘 (Wāngmì)
• 秘不發喪／秘不发丧 (mìbùfāsāng)
• 秘事
• 秘史 (mìshǐ)
• 秘密 (mìmì)
• 秘寶／秘宝
• 秘方 (mìfāng)
• 秘書／秘书 (mìshū)
• 秘本 (mìběn)
• 秘籍 (mìjí)
• 秘而不宣 (mì'érbùxuān)
• 秘聞／秘闻 (mìwén)
• 秘色 (mìsè)
• 秘色瓷
• 秘藏
• 秘計／秘计 (mìjì)
• 秘訣／秘诀 (mìjué)
• 秘話／秘话
• 秘魯／秘鲁

 

Japanese

Shinjitai	秘
Kyūjitai	祕

Kanji

秘

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 祕)

1. secret; confidential

Readings

• Go-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• Kun: ひめる (himeru, 秘める, Jōyō); かくす (kakusu, 秘す); ひそか (hisoka, 秘か)
• Nanori: なし (nashi); なみ (nami); み (mi); やす (yasu)

Compounds

• 秘(ひ)術(じゅつ) (hijutsu): numerology, or a secret art
• 秘(ひ)術(じゅつ)師(し) (hijutsushi): a practitioner of a secret art
• 秘(ひ)書(しょ) (hisho): secretary
• 秘(ひ)密(みつ) (himitsu): secret
• 秘(ひ)儀(ぎ) (higi)
• 秘(ひ)境(きょう) (hikyō)
• 秘(ひ)訣(けつ) (hiketsu)
• 秘(ひ)法(ほう) (hihō)

Korean

Hanja

秘 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

秘: Hán Nôm readings: bí

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