Usage of the character 枚
Méi
枚
[枚]
- surname Mei
méi
枚
[枚]
- classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個/个 (gè))
- 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
Méi Chéng
枚乘
[枚乘]
- Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet
cāiméi
猜枚
[猜枚]
- drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand
Yuán Méi
袁枚
[袁枚]
- Yuan Mei (1716-1798), famous Qing poet and critic, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家
méijǔ
枚举
[枚舉]
- to enumerate
méibǔ
枚卜
[枚卜]
- to choose officials by divination (archaic)
- to practice divination without a definite question
qiánmǎxiánméi
钳马衔枚
[鉗馬銜枚]
- with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom)
- (of a marching army) in utter silence
Mǎgōng Méisù
马工枚速
[馬工枚速]
- Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom)
- to each his good points
bùkěméijǔ
不可枚举
[不可枚舉]
- innumerable (idiom)
bùshèngméijǔ
不胜枚举
[不勝枚舉]
- too numerous to mention individually or one by one