秘 mì
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 禾 — cereal, grain, rice
- Made of
- 禾 cereal, grain, rice 必 surely, certainly
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
秘密
mìmì
secret
Characters in this word
密 mì
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宓 quiet, silent, still 山 mountain, hill, peak
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这是秘密。 Zhè shì mìmì. This is a secret.
- 我有个秘密。 Wǒ yǒu ge mìmì. I have a secret.
- 别说这个秘密。 Bié shuō zhège mìmì. Do not tell this secret.