祕

See also: 秘

祕	U+7955, 祕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7955

← 祔
[U+7954]

CJK Unified Ideographs

祖 →
[U+7956]

Translingual

Han character

祕 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火心竹 (IFPH), four-corner 3320₀, composition ⿰礻必)

mysterious, secret, abstruse

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 841, character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24663
Dae Jaweon: page 1259, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2394, character 5
Unihan data for U+7955

Chinese

祕 – only used as a surname or in a given name in Simplified Chinese
trad.		祕/秘
simp.		秘/祕

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 示 (“altar”) + phonetic 必 (OC *pliɡ) – arcane, secret rituals.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mì, bì (mi⁴, bi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˋ, ㄅㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bei³
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵pi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mì
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mì
  - Wade–Giles: mi⁴
  - Yale: mì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mih
  - Palladius: ми (mi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bì
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bì
  - Wade–Giles: pi⁴
  - Yale: bì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bih
  - Palladius: би (bi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: bei³
  - Yale: bei
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bei³
  - Guangdong Romanization: béi³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵pi
  - MiniDict: pi^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²pi
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pi³⁴/

Middle Chinese: pijH

Rime
Character	祕
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	/pˠiɪ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/piɪ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pji^H/
Li Rong	/pji^H/
Wang Li	/pi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bei³

Definitions

祕

alternative form of 秘
a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai	秘
Kyūjitai	祕

Kanji

祕

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 秘)

secret

Readings

Go-on: ひ (hi)
Kan-on: ひ (hi)
Kun: ひめる (himeru, 祕める)

Korean

Hanja

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

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