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

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)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - 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, 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)
  - IPA ^(key): /me̞²³/

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

stalk of shrub; trunk of tree
wooden peg (historically used as a gag for marching soldiers to prevent talking)
one by one; each
Classifier for small, flat objects, such as coins, stamps, badges, pearls, sporting medals. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
Classifier for rockets, satellites and certain weapons (especially bombs).
(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.
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
	Yangzhou	個
	Hefei	個
Cantonese	Guangzhou	個
	Hong Kong	個
	Taishan	個
	Yangjiang	個
Gan	Nanchang	個、隻
Hakka	Meixian	隻
Jin	Taiyuan	個
Min Bei	Jian'ou	隻
Min Dong	Fuzhou	個、隻
Min Nan	Xiamen	個
	Chaozhou	個
	Haikou	個、枚
Wu	Shanghai	個
	Suzhou	個
	Wenzhou	個
Xiang	Changsha	個、隻
Xiang	Shuangfeng	個

Compounds

不勝枚舉／不胜枚举 (bùshèng méijǔ)
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

鉗馬銜枚／钳马衔枚
銜枚／衔枚
馬工枚速／马工枚速

Japanese

Kanji

枚

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Goon: 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 (hiragana ひら, rōmaji hira)

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

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

Counter

枚 (hiragana まい, rōmaji -mai)

counter for flat thin objects or sheets

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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