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)

  1. mysterious, secret, abstruse

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

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pˠiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pᵚiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pjiH/
Li
Rong		 /pjiH/
Wang
Li		 /piH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /piH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 bei3

Definitions

祕

  1. Alternative form of 秘 (mì).
  2. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

 秘

Kyūjitai

 祕

Kanji
祕

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 秘)

  1. 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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