秘密 (mì mì): meaning and stroke order

秘密 in our stories

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• “这是我太爷爷留下的，”老太太说，“家里人都说，里面藏着一个秘密，可谁也没找到。”

  zhè shì wǒ tàiyéye liúxià de lǎo tàitai shuō jiāli rén dōu shuō lǐmiàn cáng zhe yí gè mìmì kě shéi yě méi zhǎodào

  "My great-grandfather left this," she said. "The family always said there was a secret hidden in it, but nobody ever found it."

  From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7

• 几千年来，中国人一直把养蚕的方法当作最重要的秘密，严禁把蚕和蚕种带出国。

  jǐqiān nián lái Zhōngguó rén yìzhí bǎ yǎng cán de fāngfǎ dàngzuò zuì zhòngyào de mìmì yánjìn bǎ cán hé cánzhǒng dài chū guó

  For thousands of years the Chinese treated silkworm-raising as their most important secret and strictly forbade taking silkworms or their eggs out of the country.

  From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8