U+79D8 "秘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

秘
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

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.

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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

NFC Quick Check
Yes
NFD Quick Check
Yes
NFKC Quick Check
Yes
NFKD Quick Check
Yes
Numeric Type
None
Numeric Value
NaN
Line Break
Ideographic
East Asian Width
Wide
Script
Han
Script Extensions
Han
Indic Syllabic Category
Other
ID Start
Yes
XID Start
Yes
ID Continue
Yes
XID Continue
Yes
Alphabetic
Yes
Vertical Orientation
Upright
Grapheme Base
Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break
Other
Word Break
Other
Sentence Break
OLetter
Ideographic
Yes
Unified Ideograph
Yes

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
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
42601.070
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
kJapaneseOldVariant
U+7955