pīnyīn 
pin1yin1 
ㄓㄨㄧㄣ 
 
simplified 
traditional 
 
枚 
枚 
mei2 
 
 
surname Mei 
 
枚 
枚 
mei2 
 
 
classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc; tree trunk; whip; wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old) 
 
 
strokes 
8 
 
radical 
 
 
strokes after radical 
4 
 
不可枚举 
不可枚舉 
bu4 ke3 mei2 ju3 
 
 
innumerable (idiom) 
 
不胜枚举 
不勝枚舉 
bu4 sheng4 mei2 ju3 
 
 
too numerous to mention individually or one by one 
 
猜枚 
猜枚 
cai1 mei2 
 
 
drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand 
 
马工枚速 
馬工枚速 
ma3 gong1 mei2 su4 
 
 
Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom); to each his good points 
 
枚卜 
枚卜 
mei2 bu3 
 
 
to choose officials by divination (archaic); to practice divination without a definite question 
 
枚乘 
枚乘 
mei2 cheng2 
 
 
Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet 
 
枚举 
枚舉 
mei2 ju3 
 
 
to enumerate 
 
钳马衔枚 
鉗馬銜枚 
qian2 ma3 xian2 mei2 
 
 
with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom); (of a marching army) in utter silence 
 
袁枚 
袁枚 
yuan2 mei2 
 
 
Yuan Mei (1716-1798), famous Qing poet and critic, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家