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梅

méi

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méi
  1. 1.plum
  2. 2.plum flower
  3. 3.Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
Méi
  1. 1.surname Mei
méi
  1. 1.variant of 梅[méi]
méi
  1. 1.old variant of 梅[méi]

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.Prunus mume (Chinese plum or Japanese apricot)
  2. 2.A plant sharing similarities with Prunus mume in habit, flowers or fruits
  3. 3.a surname

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *mɯː): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 每 (OC *mɯːʔ). Seemingly related to Old Japanese 梅 (ume₂) (Shibatani, 1990; Miyake, 1997; apud Schuessler, 2007) (which was possibly borrowed from Middle Chinese). Its origin is unknown (Schuessler, 2007); its referent, Prunus mume, originated around the Yangtze River, now in south China yet initially outside the Chinese civilization's cradle in the Central Plain.

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梅木每

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Derived terms

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Related words

梅花 plum blossom梅氏 Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies梅州 see 梅州市[Méi zhōu Shì]杨梅 red bayberry (Myrica rubra), aka Chinese bayberry酸梅 preserved plum梅江 see 梅江区[Méi jiāng Qū]梅子 plum梅瑟 Moses (Catholic translation)蜡梅 variant of 腊梅[là méi]腊梅 wintersweet西梅 European plum (Prunus domestica), esp. prune plum黄梅 see 黄梅县[Huáng méi Xiàn]