Chinese symbol for “private”
私人
sī rén
private; personal; interpersonal; sb with whom one has a close personal relationship
The closest CC-CEDICT match for private is 私人 (sī rén), defined as: private; personal; interpersonal; sb with whom one has a close personal relationship; a member of one's clique.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “private”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 私有 | sī yǒu | private; privately-owned |
| 私家 | sī jiā | private; privately owned or managed |
| 私密 | sī mì | private; secret |
| 私自 | sī zì | private; personal; secretly; without explicit approval |
| 秘密 | mì mì | secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 私人.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隐私 (隱私) | yǐn sī | secrets; private business |
| 走私 | zǒu sī | to smuggle; to have an illicit affair |
| 自私 | zì sī | selfish; selfishness |
| 私下 | sī xià | in private |
| 私营 (私營) | sī yíng | privately-owned; private |
| 人民 | rén mín | the people |
| 人们 (人們) | rén men | people |
| 有人 | yǒu rén | someone; people |
See also: Japanese symbol for “private”.
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.