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Chinese symbol for “unsolved”

未解
wèi jiě
unsolved (problem)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for unsolved is 未解 (wèi jiě), defined as: unsolved (problem).

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Characters and stroke order

未 wèi
not yet; 8th terrestrial branch
radical 75 ⽊ · 5 strokes
解 jiě
to explain; to loosen; to unfasten, to untie
radical 148 ⾓ · 13 strokes

Other Chinese words for “unsolved”

WordPinyinMeaning
尚未解决 (尚未解決)shàng wèi jiě juéunsolved; as yet unsettled
未决 (未決)wèi juéas yet undecided; unsolved

Related words

Other words that share a character with 未解.

WordPinyinMeaning
未来 (未來)wèi láifuture; tomorrow
尚未shàng wèinot yet; still not
从未 (從未)cóng wèinever
并未 (並未)bìng wèi(used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
未能wèi néngcannot; to fail to
未经 (未經)wèi jīngnot having undergone; without (having gone though a certain process)
了解liǎo jiěto understand; to know about; to learn about; to find out
解决 (解決)jiě juéto solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “unsolved”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.