méi
枚 (méi) is a Chinese word meaning “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")”.
Meanings
- 1classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个[ge4])
- 2classifier 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
- Part of speech
- measure word
Related words
枚surname Mei不胜枚举too numerous to mention individually or one by one不可枚举innumerable (idiom)枚举to enumerate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钳马衔枚with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom)枚乘Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet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[Qian2 Jia1 San1 Da4 jia1]马工枚速Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom)