梅

See also: 楳 and 槑

Translingual

Han character

1. plum, apricot, prune
2. used as a surname

References

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

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Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): méi (mei²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mui⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: méi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: méi
    • Wade–Giles: mei²
    • Yale: méi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mei
    • Palladius: мэй (mɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mui⁴
    • Yale: mùih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mui⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mui⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːi̯²¹/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 梅
Mandarin	Beijing	/mei³⁵/
	Harbin	/mei²⁴/
	Tianjin	/mei⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/mei⁴²/
	Qingdao	/me⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/mei⁴²/
	Xi'an	/mei²⁴/
	Xining	/mɨ²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/mei⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/mei⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/mei⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/mei²¹³/
	Chengdu	/mei³¹/
	Guiyang	/mei²¹/
	Kunming	/mei³¹/
	Nanjing	/məi²⁴/
	Hefei	/me⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/mei¹¹/
	Pingyao	/mæ¹³/
	Hohhot	/mei³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/me²³/
	Suzhou	/me̞¹³/
	Hangzhou	/mei²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/mai³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/mɛ⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/mə⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/mei¹³/
	Xiangtan	/məi¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/mi⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/moi¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/moi¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mui²¹/
	Nanning	/mui²¹/
	Hong Kong	/mui²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/mui³⁵/ /m³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/muoi⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/mo³³/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/bue⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/vue³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: mwoj

Rime
Character	梅
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
Baxter	mwoj
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mui4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.mˤə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	梅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	méi
Middle Chinese	‹ mwoj ›
Old Chinese	/*C.mˁə/
English	plum tree
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	梅
Reading #	1/1
No.	9302
Phonetic component	母
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	枚
Old Chinese	/*mɯː/

Compounds

• 梅花草
• 梅子

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Japanese

Kanji

梅

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On (unclassified): ばい (bai)
• Kun: うめ (ume)

Noun

梅(うめ) • (ume) 

1. A Japanese plum or Japanese apricot, Prunus mume
2. The lowest of a 3 level rank system

Derived terms

• 梅酒 (うめさけ, ume sake): plum wine
• 梅花 (ばいか, baika): plum or apricot blossom flower
• 梅果 (ばいか, baika): plum or apricot (fruit)
• 梅沢

Alternative forms

• 楳

Coordinate terms

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

Proper noun

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) a female given name.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 梅 (mai)

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Compounds

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

Adjective

• mai hoa