枚
HSK 7freq #2591
Meanings
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- 1.surname Mei
- 1.classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 个[gè])
- 2.classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc
- 3.(on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai")
- 4.(old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
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Wiktionary
- 1.stalk of shrub; trunk of tree
- 2.wooden peg (a gag for marching soldiers to prevent talking)
- 3.small wooden rod; counting rod
- 4.Classifier for generic countable objects.
- 5.one by one; each
- 6.Classifier for certain small, flat objects, such as coins, stamps, badges, pearls, sporting medals. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
- 7.Classifier for rockets, satellites and certain weapons (especially bombs).
- 8.Classifier for people.
- 9.Classifier for flat thin objects (especially followed by 入 mimicking Japanese usage to give an exotic flair or exaggerated quality perception of a product)
- 10.a surname, Mei
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Etymology
Generally thought to be an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 木 (“tree; wood”) + 攴 (“hand holding a stick”). However, Zhengzhang (2003) considers it to be a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *mɯːl): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 文 (OC *mɯn), where 文 was later corrupted to 攴. From Austroasiatic; compare Old Khmer mek (“branch; bough”) (Schuessler, 2007). Note also similarities to Burmese မဲ (mai:, “vote, ballot, lot”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
我有幾枚銀幣。
I have several silver coins.
她认出那枚胸针是她几个月前丢失的。
She recognized the brooch as the one she had lost a few months before.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
枚卜 to choose officials by divination (archaic)猜枚 drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand袁枚 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]枚举 to enumerate枚乘 Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet不可枚举 innumerable (idiom)马工枚速 Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom)不胜枚举 too numerous to mention individually or one by one钳马衔枚 with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom)