枚 — Chinese character
枚
méi
the stalk of a shrub, the trunk of a tree
- Pinyin
- méi
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 木 攵
- Formation
- pictophonetic — tree; meaning component 木; sound component 攵
- Japanese
- 枚 as a kanji
Common words with 枚
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不胜枚举 (不勝枚舉) | bù shèng méi jǔ | too numerous to mention individually or one by one |
| 枚举 (枚舉) | méi jǔ | to enumerate |
| 猜枚 | cāi méi | drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand |
| 不可枚举 (不可枚舉) | bù kě méi jǔ | innumerable (idiom) |
| 枚卜 | méi bǔ | to choose officials by divination (archaic); to practice divination without a definite question |
| 钳马衔枚 (鉗馬銜枚) | qián mǎ xián méi | with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom); (of a marching army) in utter silence |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.