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Méi

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Méi Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
Méi | Mei2
English translation
surname Mei
classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc
tree trunk
whip
wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old)
the stalk of a shrub, the trunk of a tree

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About Méi

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Number of strokes

8

Traditional form

Méi

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Numeral / 数词 shù cí Shù cí

Learning hint

tree

Etymology of Méi

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

木攵

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Depicts a hand () holding a piece of wood ().

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Example sentences using Méi

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伏明霞 Fú Míng xiá 成为 chéngwéi 中国 Zhōngguó shǒu wèi 拥有 yōngyǒu 5 Méi 奥运 Aò yùn 金牌 jīn pái de 选手 xuǎnshǒu .

A : Fu Mingxia became the first Chinese woman with 5 career medals.

平壤 Píng rǎng 周五 Zhōu wǔ zài Dōng 海岸 hǎi àn Zēng 发射 fāshè le Méi 短程 duǎn chéng 导弹 dǎodàn .

On Friday, Pyongyang also fired a short - range missile off its east coast.

qǐng 收下 shōu xià zhè Méi 戒指 jièzhi 作为 zuòwéi 信物 xìn wù .

Please have this ring for a keepsake.

Cóng 口袋 kǒu dài , tāo chū le Méi liǎng Máo 五分 Qián 硬币 yìng bì .

He took a twenty - five cent piece out of his pocket.

chú Méi 便士 biàn shì 硬币 yìng bì wài , Huán 剩下 shèng xià jiǔ 英镑 Yīng bàng .

There were nine pounds left, besides some pennies.

Words with Méi

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
Méi whip Méi
不胜枚举 bù shèng méi jǔ too numerous to mention individually or one by one不勝枚舉
袁枚 Yuán Méi Yuan Mei (1716-1798), famous Qing poet and critic, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家 Qián Jiā sān dà jiā 袁枚 Yuán Méi
枚举 méi jǔ to enumerate枚舉
不可枚举 bù kě méi jǔ innumerable (idiom)不可枚舉

Méi Decomposition & Compounds

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Méi Decomposition

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