See also:
U+79D8, 秘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79D8

[U+79D7]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+79D9]
U+3299, ㊙
CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH SECRET

[U+3298]
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
[U+329A]

Translingual edit

Presentations of ㊙︎
Text
style
Emoji
style
㊙︎ ㊙️
Note: Character's appearance
may be different on each system.
Text style is forced with ︎
and emoji style with ️

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 115, +5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹木心竹 (HDPH), four-corner 23900, composition )

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 851, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24977
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1275, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2601, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+79D8

Chinese edit

trad. /
simp. /
- only used as a surname or in a given name in Simplified Chinese

Glyph origin edit

In current form: Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *mpriɡs): semantic + phonetic (OC *pliɡ).

Variant (俗字) of via .

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Read instead of in Mandarin as a result of conflation with () (c.f. 秘密 (mìmì)) (Fu, 1958).

Pronunciation edit


Note: bì - rare except in 秘魯 (“Peru”) and as a surname.
Note:
  • 2pi - vernacular;
  • 2'mi - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 秘 (書)
Mandarin Beijing /mi⁵¹/
Harbin /mi⁵³/
Tianjin /mi⁵³/
Jinan /mi²¹/
Qingdao /mi⁴²/
Zhengzhou /mi²⁴/
Xi'an /mi²¹/
Xining /mji⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /mi¹³/
Lanzhou /mi¹³/
Ürümqi /mi²¹³/
Wuhan /mi²¹³/
Chengdu /pei¹³/
/mi³¹/
Guiyang /mi²¹/
Kunming /mi³¹/
Nanjing /pi⁴⁴/
Hefei /pz̩⁵³/
/mz̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /miəʔ²/
Pingyao /pi³⁵/
Hohhot /miəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /pi³⁵/
Suzhou /pi⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /pi⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /mi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /pi³²⁴/
Tunxi /mi⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /mi²⁴/
/pei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /pi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /pi⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /pi⁵³/
Taoyuan /pi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pei³³/
Nanning /pi³³/
Hong Kong /pei³³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /pi²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /pɛi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /mi²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /pi²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /mit̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (17)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter pijH
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bei3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 553
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mpriɡs/
Notes

Definitions edit

  1. secret; undisclosed; confidential
  2. mysterious; abstruse
  3. rare; scarce; extraordinary
  4. to keep as a secret
  5. to block
  6. Short for 秘書秘书 (mìshū, “secretary”).
  7. Short for 秘魯秘鲁 (Bìlǔ, “Peru”).
  8. a surname

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji edit

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. secret; confidential

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(bi) (hangeul , revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings:

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