枚

méi

HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Measure word Common

Definitions

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

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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’。

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 不胜枚举 bù shèng méi jǔ: too numerous to mention individually or one by one
• 不可枚举 不可枚举 bù kě méi jǔ: innumerable (idiom)
• 枚乘 枚乘 méi chéng: Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet
• 枚卜 枚卜 méi bǔ: to choose officials by divination (archaic)
• 枚举 枚举 méi jǔ: to enumerate
• 猜枚 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 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 钳马衔枚 qián mǎ xián méi: (of a marching army) in utter silence
• 马工枚速 马工枚速 mǎ gōng méi sù: Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom)