袂 — Chinese character
袂
mèi
sleeves
- Pinyin
- mèi
- Radical
- 145 ⾐ (Clothes)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 衤 夬
- Formation
- pictophonetic — clothes; meaning component 衤; sound component 夬
- Japanese
- 袂 as a kanji
Common words with 袂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 联袂 (聯袂) | lián mèi | jointly; as a group |
| 连袂 (連袂) | lián mèi | variant of 联袂 (lián mèi) |
| 分袂 | fēn mèi | to leave each other; to part company |
| 判袂 | pàn mèi | (literary) (of two people) to separate; to part |
| 奋袂 (奮袂) | fèn mèi | to roll up one's sleeves for action |
| 把袂 | bǎ mèi | to have an intimate friendship |
| 投袂而起 | tóu mèi ér qǐ | lit. to shake one's sleeves and rise (idiom); fig. to get excited and move to action |
| 揄袂 | yú mèi | to walk with the hands in one's sleeves |
| 攘袂 | rǎng mèi | to rise to action with a determined shake of the arms |
袂 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · I Ching 2 · Zhuangzi 1
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.
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