隱

secret / hidden / concealed / (prefix) crypto-

to lean upon

Character component without intrinsic meaning

faintly discernible (idiom)

to withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion / to retire

appearing and disappearing (idiom) / intermittently visible

compassion

to go back to one's native place and live in seclusion

to hide / to lie low

to live in hiding / living as a recluse / to hide from the world

Li Shangyin (c. 813-858), Tang poet

to hide / to retreat into privacy

Cain (name) / Cain (biblical character), a figure of Judeo-Christian-Muslim mythology

Priory of Zion (fictional masonic order)

a secret

cryptic epitope (immunology, a protein component that becomes effective when activated by antigen)

monasticism

personal privacy / private matters

an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the woods; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)

an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the wild; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)

intermittent / now you see it, now you don't

compassion / empathetic

appearing and disappearing / intermittently visible