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枚

méi
HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Measure word Common

Definitions

  1. 1. classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc
  2. 2. tree trunk
  3. 3. whip

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Stroke order

8 strokes

Usage notes

Collocations

‘枚’主要用于小型扁平或圆形物品，如硬币、奖牌、戒指、邮票。不用于大型物体或抽象名词。

Common mistakes

常见错误：*一枚桌子。‘枚’不用作普通量词，不可替代‘个’或‘张’。

Grammar

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HSK 2.0 Level 6+ HSK 3.0 Level 7–9+ 6 min
Measure Words 枚, 则, 幢, 截 and Other Advanced Counters

Learn ten advanced noun measure words: 枚 for small objects, 则 for news and notices, 幢 for buildings, 截 for pieces, 缕 for wisps, 摊 for puddles, 码 for “matters”, 重 for layers, 宗 for deals and 丸 for small balls.

Reading: méi Open guide

Example Sentences

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我有幾 枚 銀幣。
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 2635826)

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Words Containing 枚

不胜枚举
bù shèng méi jǔ

too numerous to mention individually or one by one

不可枚举
bù kě méi jǔ

innumerable (idiom)

枚乘
méi chéng

Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet

枚卜
méi bǔ

to choose officials by divination (archaic)

枚举
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

袁枚
yuán méi

Yuan Mei (1716-1798), famous Qing poet and critic, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家

钳马衔枚
qián mǎ xián méi

(of a marching army) in utter silence

马工枚速
mǎ gōng méi sù

Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom)