秘
mìbì HSK4

secret, mysterious

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Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 必 represents the sound. Originally written as 祕. The 礻 component was later corrupted to 禾.

Components

禾
禾 Simplified component

Corruption of the 礻 component in the original character 祕.

必
必 Sound component

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmpriɡs

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Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang