méi
coal
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 某 represents the sound.
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤə | mwoj | méi | soot; coal |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 4.2127% of movies
2414th most common character in movies
1740th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7164 |
Sources
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