枚 | [ meí ] surname Mei |
枚 | [ meí ] classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc, tree trunk, whip, wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old) |
枚乘 | [ meí chéng ] Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet |
枚卜 | [ meí bǔ ] to choose officials by divination (archaic), to practice divination without a definite question |
枚舉 | [ meí jǔ ] to enumerate |
⇒ 不勝枚舉 | [ bù shèng meí jǔ ] too numerous to mention individually or one by one |
⇒ 不可枚舉 | [ bù kě meí jǔ ] innumerable (idiom) |
⇒ 猜枚 | [ caī meí ] drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand |
⇒ 袁枚 | [ yuán meí ] Yuan Mei (1716-1798), famous Qing poet and critic, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家 |
⇒ 鉗馬銜枚 | [ qián mǎ xián meí ] with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom), (of a marching army) in utter silence |
⇒ 馬工枚速 | [ mǎ gōng meí sù ] Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom), to each his good points |