Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 枚

Modern (Beijing) reading: méi

Preclassic Old Chinese: mǝ̄j

Classic Old Chinese: mǝ̄j

Western Han Chinese: mǝ̄j

Eastern Han Chinese: mǝ̄j

Early Postclassic Chinese: mǝ̄j

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mǝ̄j

Late Postclassic Chinese: mǝ̄j

Middle Chinese: moj

English meaning : branch, board

Russian meaning[s]: 1) штука; поштучно; счетный суффикс для тонких или круглых предметов; 2) ствол (дерева); 3) мундштук, удила; 4) Мэй (фамилия)

Shuowen gloss: 榦也.從木支.可為杖也.詩曰.施于條枚. [249]

Comments: For *m- cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Chaozhou bue², Fuzhou muoi².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 75

Four-angle index: 6236

Karlgren code: 0546 a

Shijing occurrences: 10.1_

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