(mì) - secret, hidden (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

mì

Traditional: 秘

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Translation

secret, hidden (bound morpheme)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character pairing the grain radical 禾 (hé) with 必 (bì) as the phonetic, used for the sense secret or hidden.

Origin: phono-semantic
Root: 禾 (grain radical) + 必 (bì, phonetic)

Stroke order

秘

Examples

。

This is a secret.

。

He told me a secret.

守shǒu。

Please keep this secret.

。

This matter must be kept secret.

。

He is the company's secretary.

秘 (mì) means secret or hidden. It is a bound morpheme and chiefly appears in 秘密 (mì mì), secret.

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Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 秘.

秘密mì mìsecret; secret, confidential 神秘shén mìmysterious, mystical

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This word is part of lesson 106.