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秘密

mì mì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

秘密 (mì mì) means "secret". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 秘密 means

1. secret; private; confidential; clandestine
2. a secret

The characters in 秘密

• 秘mìsecret; secretary
• 密mìdense; close; thick; intimate; close; (bound form) secret; confidential

Example sentences

• 保守秘密。
  Keep the secret.
• 请保守秘密。
  Please keep it secret.
• 它是个秘密。
  It's a secret.
• 守住秘密很难。
  Shǒuzhù mìmì hěn nán.
  It's difficult to keep secrets.
• 我们没有秘密。
  We had no secrets.
• 我们都有秘密。
  We all have secrets.

Words starting with 秘密

• 秘密基地mì mì jī dìhideaway; private or insider-only place
• 秘密会社mì mì huì shèa secret society
• 秘密活动mì mì huó dòngclandestine activities; covert operation
• 秘密警察mì mì jǐng chásecret police

Words containing 秘密

• 宝葫芦的秘密Bǎo hú lu de Mì mìSecret of the Magic Gourd (1958), prize-winning children's fairy tale by Zhang Tianyi 张天翼

Sounds the same

Read mì mì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 密密thick; dense; close

Where 秘密 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Secrets & Private Matters (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mì mì correctly.
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