Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- mèi
English
- sleeves
- sleeve of a robe
Words containing 袂
- 聯袂lyun4 mai6
jointly
- 判袂pun3 mai6
(literary) (of two people) to separate; to part
- 攘袂joeng4 mai6
to rise to action with a determined shake of the arms
- 揄袂jyu4 mai6
to walk with the hands in one's sleeves
- 分袂fan1 mai6
to leave each other
- 連袂lin4 mai6
variant of 聯袂|联袂[lian2 mei4]
- 把袂baa2 mai6
to have an intimate friendship
- 奮袂fan5 mai6
to roll up one's sleeves for action
- 投袂而起tau4 mai6 ji4 hei2
lit. to shake one's sleeves and rise (idiom)