謎
謎 — mi
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 수수께끼 미
- Romanization
- mi
- English
- riddle, conundrum; puzzle
- Mandarin
- mí
- Japanese on'yomi
- メイ, ベイ, マイ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- なぞ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #2,021 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 言 (149, 10 residual)
- Unicode
- U+8B0E
Parts that make up 謎
How 謎 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 謎 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 言, 迷.
Korean example words with 謎
- 미제謎題 Korean gloss: 수수께끼 같아서 잘 풀 수 없는 어려운 문제
- 미어謎語 Korean gloss: 어떤 사물에 대하여 바로 말하지 아니하고 빗대어 말하여 알아맞히는 놀이.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 謎
- 謎なぞ riddle; puzzle; enigma
- 謎々なぞなぞ riddle; puzzle; enigma
- 謎いなぞい mystifying; puzzling; perplexing
- 謎語めいご mysterious words; confusing words
- 謎解きなぞとき solving a riddle; solving a mystery
- 謎めくなぞめく to be enigmatic; to be puzzling; to be wrapped in mystery
- 謎かけなぞかけ telling a riddle
- 謎染めなぞぞめ dyeing pattern incorporating a riddle
- 謎仕様なぞしよう confusing set-up; puzzling method
- 謎を解くなぞをとく to solve a mystery
- 謎めいたなぞめいた enigmatic; puzzling; mysterious
- 謎を掛けるなぞをかける to pose a riddle; to hint (at); to drop a hint
Other hanja read “미”
Other hanja with radical 言
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