HSK 7–9 vocabularyHSK 3.0

枚

méi

classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc

HSK 7–9

Meaning of 枚 in English

méiHSK 7–9measure wordSyllabus #8156
  1. classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc
  2. (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai")
  3. classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个[ge4])
  4. (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
  5. surname Mei

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Level, pinyin and part of speech: HSK Syllabus (CLEC, Nov 2025). Definitions: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sources & licences