Japanese Words for the Word Mystery and Related Words
The Japanese Words for the Word Mystery is “謎(なぞ-nazo)”. We use this word for translating the English word “Mystery” into Japanese. I showed this Japanese word image on the left side of this page.
And we have a few similar meaning words which are also used when we translate the English word “Mystery” into Japanese. The following words are some examples;
“神秘(しんぴ-shinpi)”, “不可思議(ふかしぎ-fukasjigi)”, “不可解(ふかかい-fukakai)(also means “Inexplicable”)” and “不思議(ふしぎ-fushigi)(main meaning is “Wonder”)” etc.
The word “Mystery” is very popular in Japan so we often use this Katakana word “ミステリー(みすてりー-misuteri)” for the word “Mystery”. The word “ミステリー” is just the Japanese way pronunciation of “Mystry”.