méi

plums

Evolution

楳 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
楳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
楳 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

méi

plums; prunes; surname

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méi

variant of [méi]

Most common words with 楳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

plum

梅林

Merlin

梅花

plum blossom

梅毒

syphilis

梅西

Lionel Messi (1987-), Argentine footballer

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.9723% of movies

1268th most common character in movies

1159th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6973

Shuowen

“梅,枏也,可食。从木,每聲。楳,或从某。”


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