梅

See also 楳, and 槑

Translingual

Han character

梅 (radical 75 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木人田卜 (DOWY), four-corner 4895₇, composition ⿰木毎)

1. plum, plums
2. prune, prunes
3. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 528, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14795
• Dae Jaweon: page 916, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1215, character 13
• Unihan data for U+6885

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Cantonese

Hanzi

梅 (Yale mui4)

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Japanese

Wikispecies

Kanji

梅 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ばい (bai)
• Kun: うめ (ume)

Compounds

• 梅沢

Noun

梅 (hiragana うめ, romaji ume)

1. a Japanese apricot, Prunus mume
2. lowest of a 3 level rank system

Alternative forms

• 楳

Coordinate terms

• 松 (まつ, matsu) (“pine, the highest rank”)
• 竹 (たけ, take) (“bamboo, the middle rank”)

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Korean

Hanja

梅 (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

梅 (pinyin méi (mei2), Wade-Giles mei²)

Compounds

• 梅子

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Middle Chinese

Han character

梅 (*məi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

梅 (mai)

Compounds

• ngày mai (tomorrow)
• mai sau (in the future)

Adjective

• mai hoa