秘

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See also: 祕
秘 U+79D8, 秘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79D8
← 秗
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 秙 →
㊙ U+3299, ㊙
CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH SECRET
← ㊘
 		Enclosed CJK Letters and Months ㊚ →

Translingual

Presentations of ㊙︎
Text
style		 Emoji
style
㊙︎ ㊙️
Note: Character's appearance
may be different on each system.
Text style is forced with ︎
and emoji style with ️

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (必) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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.

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Read mì instead of bì in Mandarin as a result of conflation with 密 (mì) (c.f. 秘密 (mìmì)) (Fu, 1958).

Pronunciation

Note: bì - rare except in 秘魯 (“Peru”) and as a surname.
Note:
  • 2pi - vernacular;
  • 2'mi - literary.
    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location 秘 (秘書)
    Mandarin Beijing /mi⁵¹/
    Harbin /mi⁵³/
    Tianjin /mi⁵³/
    Jinan /mi²¹/
    Qingdao /mi⁴²/
    Zhengzhou /mi²⁴/
    Xi'an /mi²¹/
    Xining /mji⁴⁴/
    Yinchuan /mi¹³/
    Lanzhou /mi¹³/
    Ürümqi /mi²¹³/
    Wuhan /mi²¹³/
    Chengdu /pei¹³/
    /mi³¹/
    Guiyang /mi²¹/
    Kunming /mi³¹/
    Nanjing /pi⁴⁴/
    Hefei /pz̩⁵³/
    /mz̩⁵³/
    Jin Taiyuan /miəʔ²/
    Pingyao /pi³⁵/
    Hohhot /miəʔ⁴³/
    Wu Shanghai /pi³⁵/
    Suzhou /pi⁵¹³/
    Hangzhou /pi⁴⁴⁵/
    Wenzhou /mi²¹³/
    Hui Shexian /pi³²⁴/
    Tunxi /mi⁴²/
    Xiang Changsha /mi²⁴/
    /pei⁵⁵/
    Xiangtan /pi⁵⁵/
    Gan Nanchang /pi⁴⁵/
    Hakka Meixian /pi⁵³/
    Taoyuan /pi⁵⁵/
    Cantonese Guangzhou /pei³³/
    Nanning /pi³³/
    Hong Kong /pei³³/
    Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /pi²¹/
    Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /pɛi²¹²/
    Jian'ou (Northern Min) /mi²⁴/
    Shantou (Teochew) /pi²¹³/
    Haikou (Hainanese) /mit̚⁵/
    Rime
    Character 秘
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
    Final (韻) 脂 (17)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) III
    Fanqie 兵媚切
    Baxter pijH
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/pˠiɪH/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/pᵚiH/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/piɪH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/pjiH/
    Li
    Rong         		/pjiH/
    Wang
    Li         		/piH/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/piH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		bì
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		bei3
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 秘
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 553
    Phonetic
    component         		必
    Rime
    group         		至
    Rime
    subdivision         		2
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		祕
    Old
    Chinese         		/*mpriɡs/
    Notes 祕注俗字

    Definitions

    秘

    1. secret; undisclosed; confidential
    2. mysterious; abstruse
    3. rare; scarce; extraordinary
    4. to keep as a secret
    5. to block
    6. Short for 秘書／秘书 (mìshū, “secretary”).
    7. Short for 秘魯／秘鲁 (Bìlǔ, “Peru”).
    8. a surname

    Compounds

    Japanese

    Shinjitai

    		秘

    Kyūjitai

    		祕

    Kanji

    秘

    (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 祕)

    1. secret; confidential

    Readings

    Compounds

    Korean

    Hanja

    秘 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

    1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

    Vietnamese

    Han character

    秘: Hán Nôm readings: bí

    1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
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