密 Kanji – secrecy
The Japanese kanji 密 can mean secrecy, density (pop), minuteness, carefulness.
Meaning and Readings
How is 密 read?
密 has the onyomi reading ミツ and the kunyomi reading ひそか.
In romaji, these readings can be written as mitsu, hisoka.
Common Japanese Words Using 密
These common Japanese words contain 密. Select linked kanji to explore their meanings and readings.
- 過密（かみつ） — overcrowding, congestion, overpopulation
- 機密（きみつ） — secrecy, highly classified information
- 緊密（きんみつ） — rigour, rigor, closeness, compactness, tightly knit
- 厳密（げんみつ） — strict, close, precise, scrupulous
- 親密（しんみつ） — intimacy, friendship
- 精密（せいみつ） — precise, exact, detailed, accurate, minute, close
- 秘密（ひみつ） — secret, secrecy, confidentiality, privacy
- 密航（みっこう） — smuggling (people), stowing away
- 密室（みっしつ） — locked room
- 密集（みっしゅう） — crowding together, clustering together, close formation, swarm