梅 — Chinese character
梅
méi
plum; prune; surname
- Pinyin
- méi
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 木 每
- Formation
- pictophonetic — tree; meaning component 木; sound component 每
- Japanese
- 梅 as a kanji
Common words with 梅
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 梅花 | méi huā | plum blossom; clubs ♣ (a suit in card games) |
| 梅毒 | méi dú | syphilis |
| 杨梅 (楊梅) | yáng méi | red bayberry (Myrica rubra), aka Chinese bayberry |
| 青梅竹马 (青梅竹馬) | qīng méi zhú mǎ | lit. green plums and hobby-horse (idiom); fig. innocent children's games |
| 梅子 | méi zi | plum |
| 梅花鹿 | méi huā lù | sika deer |
| 梅雨 | méi yǔ | East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer) |
| 酸梅 | suān méi | preserved plum; (esp.) smoked plum; dark plum |
| 梅开二度 (梅開二度) | méi kāi èr dù | (idiom) to have sth happen a second time (esp. to remarry or to score twice in a match) |
| 腊梅 (臘梅) | là méi | wintersweet; Japanese allspice |
| 话梅 (話梅) | huà méi | plum candy; preserved plum |
| 西梅 | xī méi | European plum (Prunus domestica), esp. prune plum; prune; dried prune |
English words written with 梅
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.