秘
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See also: 祕
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Translingual
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
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
| 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, hence there is a reference to secret rituals and the concept of arcane.
Etymology
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Read mì instead of bì in Mandarin as a result of conflation with 密 (mì) (c.f. 秘密 (mìmì)) (Fu, 1958).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Gan (Wiktionary): bi4
- Hakka
- Eastern Min (BUC): bé
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 5pi; 5mi
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): bei4 / mi6
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: mì
- Wade–Giles: mi4
- Yale: mì
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mih
- Palladius: ми (mi)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mi⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bì
- Wade–Giles: pi4
- Yale: bì
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
- Palladius: би (bi)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pi⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Note: bì - rare except in 秘魯 (“Peru”) and as a surname.
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: bei3 / bai3
- Yale: bei / bai
- Cantonese Pinyin: bei3 / bai3
- Guangdong Romanization: béi3 / bei3
- Sinological IPA (key): /pei̯³³/, /pɐi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Note: bai3 - variant (rare).
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: bi1
- Sinological IPA (key): /pi³³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: bi4
- Sinological IPA (key): /pi³⁵/
- (Nanchang)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pi
- Hakka Romanization System: bi
- Hagfa Pinyim: bi4
- Sinological IPA: /pi⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: bé
- Sinological IPA (key): /pɛi²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
- Wu
Note:
- 2pi - vernacular;
- 2'mi - literary.
- Xiang
- (Changsha)
- Wiktionary: bei4 / mi6
- Sinological IPA (key): /pe̞i̯⁴⁵/, /mi²⁴/
- (Changsha)
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: pijH
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*mpriɡs/
Definitions
秘
- secret; undisclosed; confidential
- mysterious; abstruse
- rare; scarce; extraordinary
- to keep as a secret
- to block
- Short for 秘書／秘书 (mìshū, “secretary”).
- Short for 秘魯／秘鲁 (Bìlǔ, “Peru”).
- a surname
Compounds
Japanese
| 秘 | |
| 祕 |
Kanji
秘
(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 祕)
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
- 秘術 (hijutsu): numerology, or a secret art
- 秘術師 (hijutsushi): a practitioner of a secret art
- 秘書 (hisho): secretary
- 秘密 (himitsu): secret
- 秘儀 (higi)
- 秘境 (hikyō)
- 秘訣 (hiketsu)
- 秘法 (hihō)
Korean
Hanja
秘 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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