秘
bì
#894 most
frequent character
see 秘魯|秘鲁[Bi4 lu3]
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
秘 has 必 bì as the sound part and 禾, which is an empty part corrupted from 礻. The old character 祕 meant god or deity, and from that came the meaning secret. Read mì, it also came to mean secretary.
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