枚
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classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个[ge4]); 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
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
small objects · Heisig RSH #1643
木 tree + taskmaster
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 枚
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马工枚速 | Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom); to each his good points | |
| 不可枚举 | innumerable (idiom) | |
| 不胜枚举 | too numerous to mention individually or one by one | |
| 枚举 | to enumerate | |
| 钳马衔枚 | with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom); (of a marching army) in utter silence | |
| 枚乘 | Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet | |
| 枚卜 | to choose officials by divination (archaic); to practice divination without a definite que… | |
| 猜枚 | drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's clo… | |
| 袁枚 | Yuan Mei (1716–1797), Qing poet, essayist and gastronome, one of the Three Great Masters o… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 攵 — compare how they read.