枚

枚 U+679A, 枚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-679A ← 枙 [U+6799] CJK Unified Ideographs 枛 → [U+679B]

Translingual

Han character

枚 (radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木人大 (DOK), four-corner 4894₀, composition ⿰木攵)

References

• KangXi: page 516, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14554
• Dae Jaweon: page 904, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1171, character 1
• Unihan data for U+679A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		枚

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (文) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
旻	*mrɯn
旼	*mrɯn
汶	*mrɯn, *mɯn, *mɯns
忞	*mrɯn
盿	*mrɯn
枚	*mɯːl
玫	*mɯːl
玟	*mɯːl
文	*mɯn
紋	*mɯn
蚊	*mɯn
雯	*mɯn
彣	*mɯn
馼	*mɯn
鳼	*mɯn
鼤	*mɯn, *mɯns
抆	*mɯnʔ, *mɯns
紊	*mɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯːl): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 文 (OC *mɯn). Right component etymologically unrelated to 攵. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Was the original character 𣐀?”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): méi (mei²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mui⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): mûi / bôe
• Wu (Wiktionary): me (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: méi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˊ
    • Wade–Giles: mei2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mei
    • Tongyong Pinyin: méi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mui⁴
    • Yale: mùih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mui⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mui⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːy̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mûi
    • Tâi-lô: muî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: muii
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /muĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /muĩ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bôe
    • Tâi-lô: buê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boee
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bue¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: me (T3)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /me̞²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /muʌi/

Rime
Character	枚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫杯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muʌi/
Pan Wuyun	/muoi/
Shao Rongfen	/muɒi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwəj/
Li Rong	/muᴀi/
Wang Li	/muɒi/
Bernard Karlgren	/muɑ̆i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	méi

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤəj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	枚
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	méi
Middle Chinese	‹ mwoj ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁəj/
English	stem, branch
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	枚
Reading #	1/1
No.	13012
Phonetic component	文
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	枚
Old Chinese	/*mɯːl/

Definitions

枚

1. stalk of shrub; trunk of tree
2. wooden peg (historically used as a gag for marching soldiers to prevent talking)
3. one by one; each
4. Classifier for small, flat objects, such as coins, stamps, badges, pearls, sporting medals. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
5. Classifier for rockets, satellites and certain weapons (especially bombs).
6. (literary or Hainanese) Classifier for miscellany, general classifier.

   • Kopi牛奶飯珍雞閹　這枚就是海南經典 [Hainanese, trad.]
     Kopi牛奶饭珍鸡阉　这枚就是海南经典 [Hainanese, simp.]

     From: 麦英, 海南鸡饭

     Coffee with milk, rice balls and a capon, these are Hainan's classics.

7. A surname​.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 個 (“classifier for people”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		個
Mandarin	Beijing	個
	Taiwan	個
	Jinan	個
	Xi'an	個
	Wuhan	個
	Chengdu	個
	Guilin	個
	Yangzhou	個
	Hefei	個
	Malaysia	個
	Singapore	個
Cantonese	Guangzhou	個
	Hong Kong	個
	Taishan	個
	Yangjiang	個
	Kuala Lumpur	個
	Singapore	個
Gan	Nanchang	個, 隻
Hakka	Meixian	隻
Huizhou	Jixi	個
Jin	Taiyuan	個
Min Bei	Jian'ou	隻
Min Dong	Fuzhou	隻, 個
	Changle	隻
	Fuqing	隻
	Yongtai	隻
	Gutian	隻
	Fu'an	隻
	Ningde	隻
	Shouning	個
	Zhouning	隻
	Fuding	個
Min Nan	Xiamen	個
	Quanzhou	個
	Zhangzhou	個
	Taipei	個
	Kaohsiung	個
	Tainan	個
	Penang (Hokkien)	個
	Singapore (Hokkien)	個
	Philippines (Manila Hokkien)	個
	Chaozhou	個
	Shantou	個
	Singapore (Teochew)	個
	Wenchang	個, 枚
	Haikou	個, 枚
Min Zhong	Yong'an	隻
Wu	Shanghai	個
	Suzhou	個
	Wenzhou	個
Xiang	Changsha	個, 隻
	Shuangfeng	個

Compounds

• 不勝枚舉／不胜枚举 (bùshèngméijǔ)
• 不可枚舉／不可枚举
• 不遑枚舉／不遑枚举
• 枚卜

• 枚枚 (méiméi)
• 枚舉／枚举 (méijǔ)
• 猜枚 (cāiméi)

• 鉗馬銜枚／钳马衔枚
• 銜枚／衔枚
• 馬工枚速／马工枚速

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Japanese

Kanji

枚

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: まい (mai, Jōyō); め (me)
• Kan-on: ばい (bai)
• Kun: ひら (hira, 枚)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
枚
ひら Grade: 6
kun’yomi

pira > ɸira > hira. Cognate with 平 (hira, “flat”).

Alternative forms

• 片

Noun

枚(ひら) • (hira) 

1. an object that is thin and flat

Derived terms

• 帷(かた)子(びら) (katabira)
• 湯(ゆ)帷(かた)子(びら) (yukatabira)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
枚
まい Grade: 6
on’yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Counter

枚(まい) • (-mai) 

1. counter for flat thin objects or sheets

See also

Japanese number-counter combinations for 枚(まい) (mai)
1	2	3	4	5
一(いち)枚(まい) (ichimai)	二(に)枚(まい) (nimai)	三(さん)枚(まい) (sanmai)	四(よん)枚(まい) (yonmai) 四(よ)枚(まい) (yomai)	五(ご)枚(まい) (gomai)
6	7	8	9	10
六(ろく)枚(まい) (rokumai)	七(なな)枚(まい) (nanamai) 七(しち)枚(まい) (shichimai)	八(はち)枚(まい) (hachimai)	九(きゅう)枚(まい) (kyūmai)	十(じゅう)枚(まい) (jūmai)
100	1,000	10,000	How many?
百(ひゃく)枚(まい) (hyakumai)	千(せん)枚(まい) (senmai)	一(いち)万(まん)枚(まい) (ichimanmai)	何(なん)枚(まい) (nanmai)

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Korean

Hanja

枚 (eum 매 (mae))

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Okinawan

Kanji

枚

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: めー (mē)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
枚
めー Grade: 6
on’yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Counter

枚 (hiragana めー, rōmaji -mē)

1. counter for flat thin objects or sheets

References

• “メー” in Okinawa Center of Language Study, Shuri-Naha Dialect Dictionary.

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Vietnamese

Han character

枚: Hán Nôm readings: mai

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