Himitsu is a nice word, in my opinion. Mitsu is among the rarest readings, and it just sounds nice honestly.
>>77661>Hundreds actually.Obligatory.
>>77662>Japanese has very little to do with Chinese linguistically aside from a few loanwordsGenetically, yes, but there's a non-trivial amount of grammar that they did import, such as noun classifiers or derivational morphemes like -teki. Function words, true verbs, true adjectives, and other such words do remain overwhelmingly Japonic, but it shouldn't be understated since half their lexicon is Sinitic and it includes some different rules. English also ended up importing certain productive suffixes like -ity, -ify, or -able from French/Latin, and they're by no means unimportant.
Now, if you effectively cannot tell what you're looking at when being dropped down anywhere in Japan, then you're just not literate, you're at most approximating it. Nobody would say they're literate in Russian, Greek, Hebrew, or Arabic without being able to read the scripts they're overwhelmingly written in. That's what makes Japanese and Chinese a bitch to learn for foreigners, you don't have the vocabulary acquisition from spending years constantly speaking with people and are gatekept by a gazillion catastrophic doodles. Natives don't learn by reading, that's their secret, but you will have to.