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梅 (méi): meaning and stroke order

梅 (méi) means plum, plum flower, Japanese apricot (Prunus mume), surname Mei, variant of 梅.

梅

Simplified
梅
Traditional
梅, 楳, 槑
Pinyin
méi

Stroke order of 梅

梅

  • Méi surname Mei
  • méi plum; plum flower
  • méi variant of 梅[mei2]
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 楳

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 梅

  1. méi
    • plum
    • plum flower
    • Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
  2. Méi
    • surname Mei
  3. méi Traditional 楳
    • variant of 梅[mei2]
  4. méi Traditional 槑
    • old variant of 梅[mei2]

Radical and structure

梅
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 11 strokes · 木 on the left, 每 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 梅

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).