Read Edit View history 秘 mì HSK4 secret, mysterious Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 必 represents the sound. Originally written as 祕. The 礻 component was later corrupted to 禾. Pinyin Separate values with commas mì × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Corruption of the 礻 component in the original character 祕. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 秘 Simp strokes 秘 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 秘 Simp strokes 秘 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 秘 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 469, 748 ], [ 401, 754 ], [ 316, 696 ], [ 227, 655 ], [ 219, 657 ], [ 212, 648 ], [ 193, 648 ], [ 184, 639 ] ], [ [ 83, 470 ], [ 101, 464 ], [ 151, 464 ], [ 370, 522 ], [ 417, 528 ], [ 444, 524 ] ], [ [ 289, 664 ], [ 318, 633 ], [ 316, 285 ], [ 306, 103 ], [ 318, 26 ] ], [ [ 330, 485 ], [ 272, 389 ], [ 212, 310 ], [ 129, 231 ], [ 70, 191 ] ], [ [ 340, 438 ], [ 352, 422 ], [ 390, 398 ], [ 406, 376 ] ], [ [ 465, 393 ], [ 460, 337 ], [ 430, 236 ] ], [ [ 533, 438 ], [ 551, 407 ], [ 571, 307 ], [ 591, 257 ], [ 632, 202 ], [ 677, 175 ], [ 743, 157 ], [ 791, 154 ], [ 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