枚
Meanings
- classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个[ge4])
- classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc
- (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai")
- (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
- surname Mei
In sentences
我们有六枚鸡蛋。We have a half-dozen eggs. #9453418
我有几枚银币。I have several silver coins. #677045
他拿出了几枚硬币。He took out some coins. #8789702
往立体声音响上放一枚唱片。Put a record on the stereo. #1395050
萨米给莱拉买了一枚美丽的钻戒。Sami bought Layla a beautiful diamond ring. #9952203
她认出那枚胸针是她几个月前丢失的。She recognized the brooch as the one she had lost a few months before. #8556523
Words with 枚
- 不胜枚举 too numerous to mention individually or…
- 袁枚 Yuan Mei (1716–1797), Qing poet…
- 枚举 to enumerate
- 猜枚 drinking game where one has to guess the…
- 不可枚举 innumerable (idiom)
- 钳马衔枚 with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom)
- 马工枚速 Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao…
- 枚乘 Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet
- 枚卜 to choose officials by divination (archaic)