mèi

riddle

Bewitching  words  also provides the pronunciation

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

迷 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

get lost, go astray

Evolution

谜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
谜 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
谜 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

riddle, conundrum; puzzle; riddle

() 

mèi

see 謎兒|谜儿[mèi​r], riddle

Most common words with 谜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

riddle

谜团

riddle

谜底

answer to a riddle

谜语

riddle

字谜

letter puzzle

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.8808% of movies

2074th most common character in movies

2471st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+8C1C


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