Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- méi
- Méi
English
- stalk of shrub, trunk of tree
- surname Mei
- classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个[ge4])
- classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc
- (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai")
- (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
- quantifier for small-piece things like stamps, coins, etc.
粵語
- 小型物件嘅計算單位
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Words containing 枚
- 猜枚caai1 mui2
drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand
- 差枚caai1 mui2
morra, a drinking game [written and colloquial]
- 枚乘mui4 sing4
Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet
- 枚舉mui4 geoi2
to enumerate
- 不勝枚舉bat1 sing1 mui4 geoi2
too numerous to mention individually or one by one
- 枚卜mui4 baak6
to choose officials by divination (archaic)
- 袁枚jyun4 mui4
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[Qian2 Jia1 San1 Da4 jia1]
- 不可枚舉bat1 ho2 mui4 geoi2
innumerable (idiom)
- 鉗馬銜枚kim4 maa5 haam4 mui4
with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom)
- 馬工枚速maa5 gung1 mui4 cuk1
Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom)