謎

See also: 谜

謎	U+8B0E, 謎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B0E

← 謍
[U+8B0D]

CJK Unified Ideographs

謏 →
[U+8B0F]

Translingual

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
variant forms		詸䛧

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).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mí, mì, mèi (mi², mi⁴, mei⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˊ, ㄇㄧˋ, ㄇㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mai⁴, mai⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mì
Min Dong (BUC): mê
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): bê / bī / bî

(Teochew, Peng'im): mi⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: mí
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˊ
  - Wade–Giles: mih²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mi
  - IPA ^(key): /mi³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Pinyin: mír
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˊㄦ
  - Wade–Giles: mirh²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miel
  - IPA ^(key): /miəɻ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: mì
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˋ
  - Wade–Giles: mih⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mih
  - IPA ^(key): /mi⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Pinyin: mìr
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˋㄦ
  - Wade–Giles: mirh⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miell
  - IPA ^(key): /miəɻ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: mèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˋ
  - Wade–Giles: mei⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mey
  - IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Pinyin: mèir
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˋㄦ
  - Wade–Giles: meirh⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meill
  - IPA ^(key): /məɻ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mai⁴, mai⁶
  - Yale: màih, maih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mai⁴, mai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: mei⁴, mei⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /mɐi̯²¹/, /mɐi̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mì
  - Hakka Romanization System: miˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: mi²
  - IPA: /mi¹¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: mê
  - IPA ^(key): /mɛi²⁴²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bê
  - Tâi-lô: bê
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bee
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /be²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /be¹³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /be²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bī
  - Tâi-lô: bī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bi
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /bi³³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bî
  - Tâi-lô: bî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bii
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi²³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bi²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: mi⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mĭ
  - IPA ^(key): /mi³⁵/

Definitions

謎

riddle; mystery; enigma

Compounds

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 (dēngmí)
猜啞謎／猜哑谜
猜謎／猜谜 (cāimí)
破謎兒／破谜儿
解謎／解谜
詩謎／诗谜
謎兒／谜儿
謎團／谜团 (mítuán)

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 (mímiàn)
謎頭／谜头
謎題／谜题

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03871

Japanese

Kanji

謎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Go-on: まい (mai)
Kan-on: べい (bei)
Kan’yō-on: めい (mei)
Kun: なぞ (nazo, 謎, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
謎
なぞ Grade: S
kun’yomi

Clipping of 何ぞ (nan zo).

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) なぞ [nàzó] (Heiban – [0])
- IPA^(key): [na̠zo̞]

Noun

謎 (hiragana なぞ, rōmaji nazo)

a mystery; a puzzle
ハリー・ポッターと謎 (なぞ)のプリンス
Harī Pottā to Nazo no Purinsu
Harry Potter and the Mysterious Prince
- 1997 December 16, Kanari, Yōzaburō; Satō, Fumiya, “速はや水み玲れい香か誘ゆう拐かい殺さつ人じん事じ件けん⑥ [The Hayami Reika’s Kidnapping Murder Case ⑥]”, in 金きん田だ一いち少しょう年ねんの事じ件けん簿ぼ [Young Kindaichi Case Files], volume 27 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN:
  
  謎 (なぞ)は　すべてとけた‼
  Nazo wa subete toketa‼
  All the pieces have been found‼
  (literally, “The puzzle has been completed‼”)

Korean

Hanja

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

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