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謎

謎

See also: 谜

Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (米) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
謎 *miː, *miːs
迷 *miː
米 *miːʔ
眯 *miːʔ
洣 *miːʔ
蔝 *miːʔ
麊 *me
冞 *me
糜 *mral
敉 *meʔ
侎 *meʔ
麋 *mril
蘪 *mril
攗 *mril

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *miː, *miːs) : semantic 言 + phonetic 迷 ‎(OC *miː).

Han character

謎 (radical 149 言+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜口卜火木 (YRYFD), four-corner 09639, composition ⿰訁迷)

References

  • KangXi: page 1174, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35800
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1639, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4001, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8B0E

Chinese

trad. 謎
simp. 谜
alt. forms 詸
䛧

Alternative forms

  • (Mandarin) 謎兒／谜儿 (mèir) (erhua-ed with pronunciation changes)

Pronunciation

Noun

謎

  1. riddle, mystery, enigma

Derived terms

  • 一謎／一谜
  • 商謎／商谜
  • 啞謎／哑谜
  • 囫圇謎／囫囵谜
  • 字謎／字谜 (zìmí)
  • 打啞謎／打哑谜
  • 打燈謎／打灯谜
  • 打謎／打谜
  • 撒謎語／撒谜语
  • 燈謎／灯谜
  • 猜啞謎／猜哑谜
  • 猜謎／猜谜
  • 破謎兒／破谜儿
  • 解謎／解谜
  • 詩謎／诗谜
  • 謎兒／谜儿
  • 謎團／谜团
  • 謎學／谜学
  • 謎寐／谜寐
  • 謎底／谜底 (mídǐ)
  • 謎言謎語／谜言谜语
  • 謎語／谜语 (míyǔ)
  • 謎面／谜面
  • 謎頭／谜头
  • 謎題／谜题

References

Japanese

Kanji

謎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. puzzle

Readings

Noun

謎 ‎(hiragana なぞ, romaji nazo)

  1. a mystery

Korean

Hanja

謎 • ‎(mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune-Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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