秘密

Character by character

• 秘mì10 strokesHSK 4secret, mysterious, abstruse
• 密mì11 strokesHSK 4dense, thick, close; intimate

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 你不能有秘密。

  Nǐ bù néng yǒu mì mì

  You can't keep a secret.

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• 这是我们之间的秘密。

  Zhè shì wǒ men zhī jiān de mì mì

  This is secret between you and me.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 秘密. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 神秘shén mìHSK 4

  mysterious; mystery

• 密码mì mǎHSK 4

  cipher; secret code; password; PIN

• 密mìHSK 4

  secret; confidential; close; thick; dense

• 亲密qīn mìHSK 4

  intimate; close

• 秘书mì shūHSK 4

  secretary

• 密切mì qièHSK 4

  close; familiar; intimate; closely (related); to foster close ties; to pay close attention

• 保密bǎo mìHSK 4

  to keep sth confidential; to maintain secrecy

• 紧密jǐn mìHSK 4

  inseparably close

• 机密jī mìHSK 7

  secret; classified (information)

• 严密yán mìHSK 7

  strict; tight (organization, surveillance etc)

• 密度mì dùHSK 7

  density; thickness

• 密封mì fēngHSK 7

  to seal up

• 秘诀mì juéHSK 7

  secret know-how; key (to longevity); secret (of happiness); recipe (for success)

• 秘书长mì shū zhǎngHSK 6

  secretary-general

• 密集mì jíHSK 7

  concentrated; crowded together; intensive; compressed

• 精密jīng mì

  accuracy; exact; precise; refined

• 秘方mì fāngHSK 7

  secret recipe

• 周密zhōu mìHSK 7

  careful; thorough; meticulous; dense; impenetrable

• 奥秘ào mìHSK 7

  secret; mystery

• 泄密xiè mìHSK 7

  to leak secrets

• 密不可分mì bù kě fēnHSK 7

  inextricably linked (idiom); inseparable

• 茂密mào mìHSK 7

  dense (of plant growth); lush

• 稠密chóu mìHSK 7

  dense