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枚

枚

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

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
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).  ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  6. 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

Japanese

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Noun

枚 ‎(hiragana ひら, romaji hira)

  1. an object that is thin and flat
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Counter

枚 ‎(hiragana まい, romaji -mai)

  1. counter for flat thin objects or sheets

Kanji

枚

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

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