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枚
méi
1.
classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc
2.
tree trunk
3.
whip
4.
wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old)
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (9)
枚乘
MéiChéng
Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet
枚卜
méibǔ
to choose officials by divination (archaic)
枚举
méijǔ
to enumerate
猜枚
cāiméi
drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand
袁枚
YuánMéi
Yuan Mei (1716-1798), famous Qing poet and critic, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era [[乾嘉三大家]]
不胜枚举
bùshèngméijǔ
too numerous to mention individually or one by one
不可枚举
bùkěméijǔ
innumerable (idiom)
钳马衔枚
qiánmǎxiánméi
with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom)
马工枚速
MǎgōngMéisù
Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom)
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 6
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,883
- Word Frequency Rank
- 3,638 of 84,292