riddle

words (讠) + lost (迷) = a riddle

迷 means to be lost or bewildered, and a riddle is precisely a puzzle made of words that leaves you wandering. The speech radical grounds it in language, while 迷 carries the sense of confusion.

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SpeechSemantic
To be lostSemantic

这个很难猜,你知道答案吗?

zhè ge mí hěn nán cāi,nǐ zhī dào dá àn ma?

This riddle is very hard to guess — do you know the answer?

他出了一个关于动物的,大家都猜不出来。

tā chū le yī ge guān yú dòng wù de mí,dà jiā dōu cāi bù chū lái。

He made up a riddle about animals, and nobody could guess it.

Words with 谜

哑谜

yǎ mí

puzzle

字谜

zì mí

letter puzzle

打哑谜

dǎ yǎ mí

to talk in riddles

春灯谜

chūn dēng mí

Spring lantern riddles (guessing game at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节, at the end of Spring festival 春節|春节)

未解之谜

wèi jiě zhī mí

unsolved mystery

灯谜

dēng mí

riddles written on lanterns (e.g. for the Lantern Festival at the end of Chinese New Year)

猜谜

cāi mí

to answer a riddle

猜谜儿

cāi mí r

to answer a riddle

纵横字谜

zòng héng zì mí

crossword

解谜

jiě mí

to solve the riddle

谜之

mí zhī

(neologism) (slang) (attributive) mysterious; enigmatic (calque from Japanese 謎の "nazo no")

谜儿

mèi r

riddle

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