U+8B0E "謎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
謎
U+8B0E "謎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji or Chinese character that means "riddle" or "mystery" and is commonly used in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean writing systems. Originating from classical Chinese, it combines the radical for "speech" or "words" on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its association with verbal puzzles and enigmatic questions. In modern usage, this character appears in words like "謎解き" (riddle solving) in Japanese and "謎語" (riddle) in Chinese, and it often conveys a sense of intrigue or unsolved puzzle in literature, games, and everyday conversation across East Asian cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B0E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 謎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 謎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAC 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B0E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B0E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b0e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C1BC |
| kCCCII | 215933 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7547 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7547 |
| kCangjie | YRYFD |
| kCantonese | mai4 |
| kCihaiT | 1253.407 |
| kCowles | 2605 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1639.160 |
| kDefinition | riddle, conundrum; puzzle |
| kEACC | 215933 |
| kFanqie | 莫計 |
| kFenn | 517F |
| kFennIndex | 338.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0963.9 |
| kGB1 | 3553 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kHangul | 미:0N |
| kHanYu | 64001.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64001.080:mí |
| kHKGlyph | 3839 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1639.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64001.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1174.310 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4355 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C1BC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4666 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DCA7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5A3A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7547 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6751 |
| kJapanese | メイ ベイ マイ なぞ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | NAZO |
| kJapaneseOn | MEI |
| kJis0 | 3870 |
| kKangXi | 1174.310 |
| kKorean | MI |
| kMandarin | mí |
| kMatthews | 4451 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1765 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024670 MJ024669:E0102 MJ024670:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 35800 35800:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4405 |
| kPhonetic | 873B |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3262+149.7.9 V+7766+149.7.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.10 |
| kSBGY | 373.38 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "谜" U+8C1C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 653.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | mí粵mai4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6193 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | mê |
| kXerox | 260:325 |