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枚méi
  1. 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

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枚Méi

surname Mei

枚举méi jǔ

to enumerate

枚乘Méi Chéng

Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet

枚卜méi bǔ

to choose officials by divination (archaic); to practice divination without a definite question

猜枚cāi méi

drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand

袁枚Yuán Méi

Yuan Mei (1716–1797), Qing poet, essayist and gastronome, one of the Three Great Masters of the Qianlong-Jiaqing period 乾嘉三大家[Qian2 Jia1 San1 Da4 jia1]

不可枚举bù kě méi jǔ

innumerable (idiom)

不胜枚举bù shèng méi jǔ

too numerous to mention individually or one by one

钳马衔枚qián mǎ xián méi

with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom); (of a marching army) in utter silence

马工枚速Mǎ gōng Méi sù

Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom); to each his good points

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