谜语
mí​yǔ HSK7

riddle

谜语 (謎語) mí​yǔ
riddle noun
a statement or question having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved

他出了一个很难的谜语，大家都没猜出来。

tā chū le yī gè hěn nán de mí​yǔ, dà​jiā dōu méi cāi chu​lai.

He gave a very difficult riddle that no one could solve.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
2.62 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.910 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)