HSK 6 · Society

隐私 yǐnsī “privacy” in Chinese

Traditional 隱私

What 隐私 means

  1. privacy
  2. personal secrets
  3. secrets
  4. private business

How to say 隐私

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale隐yǐn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale私sī1st tone, high and level

隐私 in a sentence

  1. 不要侵犯她的隐私。

    Búyào qīnfàn tā de yǐnsī.

    Don’t invade her privacy.

    Sentence #1780724 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他侵犯了她的隐私。

    Tā qīnfàn le tā de yǐnsī.

    He invaded her privacy.

    Sentence #1780725 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 个人隐私就是一个笑话。

    Gèrén yǐnsī jiùshì yí ge xiàohua.

    Personal privacy is a joke.

    Sentence #4813406 from Tatoeba

How 隐私 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 隐 (yǐn) with each of its parts in a different colour
隐yǐnsecret; hidden; concealed; crypto-
  • 阝place
  • 急anxious · jí
The character 私 (sī) with each of its parts in a different colour
私sīpersonal; private
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 厶private · sī

How to write 隐私

隐 11 strokes · 私 7 strokes

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隐私 (yǐnsī) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 隐私 (yǐnsī). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 隐私

Words with 隐

隐瞒yǐnmán · to conceal隐蔽yǐnbì · hidden隐约yǐnyuē · faint隐患yǐnhuàn · hidden danger

Words with 私

私人sīrén · private自私zìsī · selfish私自sīzì · privately走私zǒusī · to smuggle

More words: Society & Law

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FAQs

隐私 (yǐnsī) means “privacy” or “personal secrets”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yǐnsī: yǐn with a 3rd tone, then sī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 隐私 is written 隱私. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yinsi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 隐私 from the suggestions. Typing yinsi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
隐私 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.