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What 枚 means

surname Mei; classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 个); 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

Pictophonetic: semantic 木 (tree), phonetic 攵

Made of 木 + 攵

Words with 枚

• 枚举méi jǔto enumerate
• 猜枚cāi méidrinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand
• 不胜枚举bù shèng méi jǔtoo numerous to mention individually or one by one
• 枚卜méi bǔto choose officials by divination (archaic); to practice divination without a definite question
• 不可枚举bù kě méi jǔinnumerable (idiom)
• 钳马衔枚qián mǎ xián méiwith horses and soldiers gagged (idiom); (of a marching army) in utter silence
• 马工枚速mǎ gōng méi sùSima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom); to each his good points
• 袁枚yuán méiYuan Mei (1716–1797), Qing poet, essayist and gastronome, one of the Three Great Masters of the Qianlong-Jiaqing period 乾嘉三大家
• 枚乘méi chéngMei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet

枚 in a sentence

• 我的背包里有几枚邮票。

  wǒ de bēi bāo lǐ yǒu jǐ méi yóu piào 。

  I have some stamps in my bag.

• 我有几枚银币。

  wǒ yǒu jǐ méi yín bì 。

  I have several silver coins.

• 他拿出了几枚硬币。

  tā ná chū le jǐ méi yìng bì 。

  He took out some coins.

• 往立体声音响上放一枚唱片。

  wǎng lì tǐ shēng yīn xiǎng shàng fàng yì méi chàng piàn 。

  Put a record on the stereo.

• 她认出那枚胸针是她几个月前丢失的。

  tā rèn chū nà méi xiōng zhēn shì tā jǐ gè yuè qián diū shī de 。

  She recognized the brooch as the one she had lost a few months before.

Characters that sound like 枚

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