枚
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
8 strokes
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How 枚 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
木 (semantic, “tree”) + 攵 (phonetic, pū)
How to remember it
small objects · Heisig RSH #1643
木 tree + taskmaster
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 攵
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 攵 (pū) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 攵 sound component | pū | to rap, to tap; script; to let go |
| 敦 | dūn | honest, candid, sincere; kind-hearted; to esteem |
| 玫 | méi | rose |
Words containing 枚
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马工枚速 | Mǎ gōng Méi sù | Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom); to each his good points |
| 不可枚举 | bù kě méi jǔ | innumerable (idiom) |
| 不胜枚举 | bù shèng méi jǔ | too numerous to mention individually or one by one |
| 枚举 | méi jǔ | to enumerate |
| 钳马衔枚 | qián mǎ xián méi | with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom); (of a marching army) in utter silence |
| 枚乘 | Méi Chéng | Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet |
| 枚卜 | méi bǔ | to choose officials by divination (archaic); to practice divination without a definite que… |
| 猜枚 | cāi méi | drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's clo… |
| 袁枚 | Yuán Méi | Yuan Mei (1716–1797), Qing poet, essayist and gastronome, one of the Three Great Masters o… |