(mì) - secret, hidden (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
mìTraditional: 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。
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.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 秘.
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