Chinese symbol for “secretive”
诡秘
guǐ mì
Traditional: 詭祕
secretive; furtive; surreptitious
The closest CC-CEDICT match for secretive is 诡秘 (guǐ mì), defined as: secretive; furtive; surreptitious.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “secretive”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 诡秘.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诡异 (詭異) | guǐ yì | strange; weird |
| 诡计 (詭計) | guǐ jì | trick; ruse |
| 诡辩 (詭辯) | guǐ biàn | specious arguments; sophistry |
| 诡计多端 (詭計多端) | guǐ jì duō duān | deceitful in many ways (idiom); wily and mischievous; full of craft and cunning |
| 诡谲 (詭譎) | guǐ jué | (literary) strange; unpredictable |
| 阴谋诡计 (陰謀詭計) | yīn móu guǐ jì | crafty plots and machinations (idiom) |
| 秘密 | mì mì | secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret |
| 秘书 (秘書) | mì shū | secretary |
See also: Japanese symbol for “secretive”.
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.