谜 mí
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 迷 to bewitch, to charm
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
谜底
mídǐ
answer to a riddle; truth behind a mystery
Characters in this word
底 dǐ
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- Made of
- 广 broad, vast, wide 氐 the name of an ancient tribe
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 大家猜了很久，老师终于说出了谜底。 Dàjiā cāi le hěn jiǔ, lǎoshī zhōngyú shuōchū le mídǐ. After everyone had guessed for a long time, the teacher finally revealed the answer.
- 看完最后一章，我才明白了故事的谜底。 Kàn wán zuìhòu yì zhāng, wǒ cái míngbai le gùshi de mídǐ. Only after reading the last chapter did I understand the answer to the story's mystery.
- 这个谜语的谜底是月亮，你猜到了吗？ Zhège míyǔ de mídǐ shì yuèliang, nǐ cāi dào le ma? The answer to this riddle is the moon; did you guess it?
Related words
- 谜 mí riddle; mystery
- 谜团 mítuán mystery; enigma
- 谜语 míyǔ riddle
- 到底 dàodǐ really (for emphasis in questions)
- 底下 dǐxia under; below
- 年底 niándǐ end of the year
- 彻底 chèdǐ thoroughly
- 底 dǐ bottom
- 月底 yuèdǐ end of the month
- 心底 xīndǐ bottom of the heart
- 底层 dǐcéng lowest level; grassroots; underlying layer
- 底线 dǐxiàn bottom line; baseline