謎

See also: 谜

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

← 謍
[U+8B0D]

CJK Unified Ideographs

謏 →
[U+8B0F]

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

Pronunciation

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

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˊ, ㄇㄧˋ, ㄇㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mai⁴, mai⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mì
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 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: mainstream 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

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)

Japanese

Kanji

謎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

On (unclassified): めい (mei)
Kun: なぞ (nazo, 謎, Jōyō)

Noun

謎 (hiragana なぞ, rōmaji nazo)

a mystery
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

Korean

Hanja

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

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