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Chinese symbol for “privacy”

私隐
sī yǐn
Traditional: 私隱
(HK) privacy

The closest CC-CEDICT match for privacy is 私隐 (sī yǐn), defined as: (HK) privacy.

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Characters and stroke order

私 sī
personal, private, secret; selfish
radical 115 ⽲ · 7 strokes
隐 yǐn
to hide, to conceal; secret, hidden
radical 170 ⾩ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “privacy”

WordPinyinMeaning
隐私 (隱私)yǐn sīsecrets; private business

Related words

Other words that share a character with 私隐.

WordPinyinMeaning
私人sī rénprivate; personal
隐私 (隱私)yǐn sīsecrets; private business
走私zǒu sīto smuggle; to have an illicit affair
自私zì sīselfish; selfishness
私下sī xiàin private
私营 (私營)sī yíngprivately-owned; private
隐藏 (隱藏)yǐn cángto hide; to conceal
隐瞒 (隱瞞)yǐn mánto conceal; to hide (a taboo subject)

See also: Japanese symbol for “privacy”.

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.