疑案 (yí àn) — unsettled legal case; mystery; puzzling matter
Definition
A '疑案' is literally a 'doubting case' — an unsolved case or mystery, used in both legal and figurative (crime-fiction) contexts.
noun
unsettled legal casemysterypuzzling matter
Measure word · 个
Examples
- ,。Zhè qǐ yí àn yǐ jīng diào chá le sān nián, zhì jīn méi yǒu jié guǒ.This unsettled case has been investigated for three years and still has no result.
- 疑案。Zhēn tàn xiǎo shuō lǐ zǒng shì chōng mǎn gè zhǒng yí àn.Detective novels are always full of various mysteries.
- 疑案,。Tā de shī zōng chéng le yì zhuāng yí àn, zhì jīn wú rén néng jiě.His disappearance became a mystery that no one has been able to solve to this day.
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