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
秘书
mìshū
secretary
Characters in this word
书 shū
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 丨 — vertical stroke
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 她是秘书。 Tā shì mìshū. She is a secretary.
- 秘书很忙。 Mìshū hěn máng. The secretary is very busy.
- 我找秘书。 Wǒ zhǎo mìshū. I am looking for the secretary.