枚
枚
méi
classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc; tree trunk; whip; wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old)
classifier
Character Breakdown
Radical: 木 (no. 75)
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- (classifier) classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc
- tree trunk
- whip
- wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old)
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Words Containing 枚
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 枚乘 | Méi Chéng | Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet | |
| 枚卜 | méi bǔ | to choose officials by divination (archaic) | |
| 枚举 | méi jǔ | to enumerate | |
| 猜枚 | cāi méi | drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand | |
| 袁枚 | Yuán Méi | 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 | bù shèng méi jǔ | too numerous to mention individually or one by one | |
| 不可枚举 | bù kě méi jǔ | innumerable (idiom) | |
| 钳马衔枚 | qián mǎ xián méi | with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom) | |
| 马工枚速 | Mǎ gōng Méi sù | Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom) |
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