U+79D8 "秘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
秘
U+79D8 "秘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese and Korean scripts, where it carries the fundamental meaning of "secret," "mystery," or "to conceal." Composed of the radical for "grain" (禾) on the left and the phonetic component 必 (bì) on the right, its etymology suggests the idea of something hidden or precious, much like a carefully guarded field or a secret essential for life. In modern usage, it appears in common words such as "秘密" (secret), "秘書" (secretary), and "秘訣" (secret tip or trick), making it a key character for expressing concepts of privacy, confidentiality, and specialized knowledge across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+79D8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 秘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 秘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA7 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x79D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000079D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u79d8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AFB5 |
| kCCCII | 226838 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5738 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5738 |
| kCangjie | HDPH |
| kCantonese | bei3 |
| kCihaiT | 991.504 |
| kCowles | 3255 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1275.120 |
| kDefinition | secret, mysterious, abstruse |
| kEACC | 4B4E67 |
| kFanqie | 兵媚 |
| kFenn | 378C |
| kFennIndex | 339.03 400.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2390.0 |
| kGB0 | 3556 |
| kGB1 | 3556 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kHangul | 비:0N |
| kHanYu | 42601.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | mì(154) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42601.070:mì,bì,bié |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1275.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42601.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0851.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4358 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AFB5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-486B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DFE3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5D7A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5738 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-7F2D |
| kJapanese | ヒ ベチ ベツ ひめる かくす ひそか |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1949 |
| kJapaneseKun | HIMERU KAKUSU |
| kJapaneseOn | HI |
| kJis0 | 4075 |
| kKangXi | 0851.120 |
| kKorean | PI |
| kLau | 81 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4434 |
| kMandarin | mì |
| kMatthews | 5088 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2313 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019019 |
| kMorohashi | 24977 |
| kNelson | 3281 |
| kPhonetic | 1059 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3455+115.5.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 115.5 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7955<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 485.05 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4434 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 019.040:bì 250.170:mì |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 250:171 |
| kXHC1983 | 0059.090:bì 0783.040:mì |