Chinese symbol for “cryptography”
密码学
mì mǎ xué
Traditional: 密碼學
cryptography
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cryptography is 密码学 (mì mǎ xué), defined as: cryptography.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 密码学.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 秘密 | mì mì | secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret |
| 密码 (密碼) | mì mǎ | cipher; secret code; password; PIN |
| 密切 | mì qiè | close; intimate; to strengthen (ties, cooperation etc) |
| 紧密 (緊密) | jǐn mì | inseparably close |
| 密度 | mì dù | density; concentration |
| 机密 (機密) | jī mì | secret; classified; classified information; secret |
| 代码 (代碼) | dài mǎ | code |
| 号码 (號碼) | hào mǎ | number; measure word: 堆 (duī), 个 (gè) |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cryptography”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.