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

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

Stroke order for 秘

Examples

This is a secret.

He told me a secret.

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.

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 秘.

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This word is part of lesson 106.