méi
tree trunk
Depicts a hand tapping (攵) the trunk of a tree (木).
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 枚
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
whip | ||
too numerous to mention individually or one by one | ||
Yuan Mei (1716-1798), famous Qing poet and critic, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家 | ||
to enumerate | ||
innumerable (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤəj | mwoj | méi | stem, branch |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.0959% of movies
2109th most common character in movies
1884th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+679A |
Shuowen | “枚,榦也,可為杖。从木,从攴。” |
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