(mì) - dense, close, secret (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
mìTraditional: 密
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Translation
dense, close, secret (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character combining the mountain radical 山 (shān) at the foot with 宓 (mì) as the phonetic; close-packed hills gave the senses dense, close, and secret.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 山 (mountain radical) + 宓 (mì, phonetic)
Stroke order
密
Examples
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Their relationship is very close.
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This is a secret.
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Do not tell others your password.
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This forest is very dense.
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Her hair is both black and thick.
密 (mì) means dense, close, or secret. It anchors compounds such as 秘密 (mì mì), secret, and 密码 (mì mǎ), password.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 密.
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