密
dense; close; thick; intimate; close; (bound form) secret; confidential; (Internet slang) to send a private message to (sb); to DM
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #342 U+5BC6
How 密 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A silent 宓 mountain 山; 宓 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
secret · Heisig RSH #692
house + 必 certainly + 山 mountain
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 密 as their sound component
These characters all use 密 (mì) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 密 sound component | mì | secret, confidential; intimate, close; dense, thick |
| 嘧 | mì | in chemistry, -mi as in pyramidine |
Words containing 密
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 密山市 | Mì shān Shì | Mishan, a county-level city in Jixi City 雞西市|鸡西市[Ji1 xi1 Shi4], Heilongjiang |
| 密不可分 | mì bù kě fēn | inextricably linked (idiom); inseparable |
| 密克罗尼西亚 | Mì kè luó ní xī yà | Micronesia |
| 机密性 | jī mì xìng | confidentiality |
| 高密市 | Gāo mì Shì | Gaomi, a county-level city in Weifang City 濰坊市|潍坊市[Wei2 fang1 Shi4], Shandong |
| 新密市 | Xīn mì Shì | Xinmi, a county-level city in Zhengzhou City 鄭州市|郑州市[Zheng4 zhou1 Shi4], Henan |
| 人口密度 | rén kǒu mì dù | population density |
| 密西西比河 | Mì xī xī bǐ Hé | Mississippi River |
| 密西西比 | Mì xī xī bǐ | Mississippi |
| 点对点加密 | diǎn duì diǎn jiā mì | (Tw) end-to-end encryption |
| 密县 | Mì xiàn | Mi county in Henan |
| 密山 | Mì shān | see 密山市[Mi4 shan1 Shi4] |
| 人口密集 | rén kǒu mì jí | densely populated |
| 通关密语 | tōng guān mì yǔ | password |
| 东密德兰 | Dōng mì dé lán | East Midlands, English county |
| 密斯 | Mì sī | Miss (loanword) |
| 斯密 | Sī mì | Smith (name); also rendered as 史密斯 |
| 机密 | jī mì | secret; classified; classified information; secret |
| 波密县 | Bō mì Xiàn | Bomê, a county in Nyingchi City 林芝市[Lin2 zhi1 Shi4], Tibet |
| 密会 | mì huì | secret meeting; to meet secretly |