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: 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 distorted into 攵.

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, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: méi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mei²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mei
    • IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mui⁴
    • Yale: mùih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mui⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mui⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /muːi̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mûi
    • Tâi-lô: muî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: muii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /muĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /muĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (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)
    • 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	/*mˤəj/
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, Wenzhou Wu) Classifier for miscellany, general classifier.
7. A surname​.

Compounds

• 不勝枚舉／不胜枚举
• 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
• 猜枚

• 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

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• 片

Noun

枚 (hiragana ひら, rōmaji hira)

1. an object that is thin and flat

Derived terms

• 帷子 (かたびら) (katabira)
• 湯帷子 (ゆかたびら) (yukatabira)

Etymology 2

Counter

枚 (hiragana まい, rōmaji -mai)

1. counter for flat thin objects or sheets

Kanji

枚

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On (unclassified): まい (mai), ばい (bai)
• Kun: ひら (hira)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: mai

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