枚
Ancient forms
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Meaning
méi mei2
- classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc
- tree trunk
- whip
- wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old)
- surname Mei
Example sentences
- Put a record on the stereo.
Words with 枚
- 枚举 méijǔ to enumerate
- 枚卜 méibǔ to choose officials by divination (archaic)
- 猜枚 cāiméi drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand
- 不可枚举 bùkěméijǔ innumerable (idiom)
- 不胜枚举 bùshèngméijǔ too numerous to mention individually or one by one
- 钳马衔枚 qiánmǎxiánméi with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom)
- 枚乘 MéiChéng Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet
- 袁枚 YuánMéi Yuan Mei (1716–1797), Qing poet, essayist and gastronome, one of the Three Great Masters of the Qianlong-Jiaqing period 乾嘉三大家 (Qián Jiā Sān Dà jiā)
- 马工枚速 MǎgōngMéisù Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom)