解密

jiěmì

verb #12,576

Meanings

1 to declassify
2 to decrypt
3 to decipher

Characters

to untie; to solve; to explain

secret; dense; code

Examples

这些文件已经被解密了。

Zhèxiē wénjiàn yǐjīng bèi jiěmì le.

These documents have been declassified.

黑客试图解密数据库。

Hēikè shìtú jiěmì shùjùkù.

The hacker tried to decrypt the database.

Tips

usage

解密 is used in two main contexts: declassifying secret documents (解密文件) and decrypting encrypted data in computing (解密数据). The opposite is 加密 (jiāmì, to encrypt/to classify).

Stroke Order

解 jiě

密 mì