梅 (méi)
plum; plum blossom
How 梅 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Traditional
- 梅
- Simplified
- 梅 (unchanged)
Common words using 梅
- 梅花 méihuā
- plum blossom; clubs ♣ (a suit in card games); wintersweet (topolect)
- 望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě
- lit. to quench one's thirst by thinking of plums (idiom); fig. to console oneself with illusions
- 梅子 méizi
- plum
- 梅州 méizhōu
- Meizhou prefecture level city in Guangdong
- 梅林 méilín
- Merlin
- 梅毒 méidú
- syphilis
- 梅縣 méixiàn
- Meixian county in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong
- 梅花鹿 méihuālù
- sika deer
- 梅雨 méiyǔ
- Asian rainy season; monsoon
- 楊梅 yángméi
- Yangmei town in Taoyuan county 桃園縣|桃园县[Tao2 yuan2 xian4], north Taiwan
- 臘梅 làméi
- wintersweet; Japanese allspice; Chimonanthus praecox
- 話梅 huàméi
- plum candy; preserved plum
梅 in a sentence
梅花是中華民國的國花。
Méihuā shì Zhōnghuá Mínguó de guóhuā.
“The plum blossom is the national flower of the Republic of China.”
How common is 梅?
梅 is the 1,157th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 91.4% of all running text.
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