Hanja Analyzer
祕

祕 — bi

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
숨길 비
Romanization
bi
English
mysterious, secret, abstruse
Mandarin
mì
Japanese on'yomi
ヒ, ヒツ, ヒチ
Japanese kun'yomi
ひ.める かく.す
Japanese usage
Jinmeiyō kanji
Japanese standard form
秘 (Grade 6)
Strokes
9
Radical
示 (113, 5 residual)
Phonetic component
必
Unicode
U+7955

Parts that make up 祕

  • 示 보일 시, 땅 귀신 기 제물을 올린 제단제사와 신, 하늘이 내리는 일. 왼쪽에서 礻 로 쓴다
  • 必 반드시 필sound 자루에 표를 한 모양반드시. ‘필·비’ 계열의 소리

How 祕 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 祕 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 示, 必.

Characters sharing the phonetic 必

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “비”

Other hanja with radical 示

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