枚

枚 U+679A, 枚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-679A
← 枙
[U+6799] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 枛 →
[U+679B]

Translingual

Han character

枚 (radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木人大 (DOK), four-corner 48940, composition ⿰木攵)

References
  • KangXi: page 516, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14554
  • Dae Jaweon: page 904, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1171, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+679A

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 枚

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (文) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
旻 *mrɯn
旼 *mrɯn
汶 *mrɯn, *mɯn, *mɯns
忞 *mrɯn
盿 *mrɯn
枚 *mɯːl
玫 *mɯːl
玟 *mɯːl
文 *mɯn
紋 *mɯn
蚊 *mɯn
雯 *mɯn
彣 *mɯn
馼 *mɯn
鳼 *mɯn
鼤 *mɯn, *mɯns
抆 *mɯnʔ, *mɯns
紊 *mɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯːl) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 文 (OC *mɯn). Right component etymologically unrelated to 攵.

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 枚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫杯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /muʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /muoi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /muɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mwəj/
Li
Rong		 /muᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /muɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /muɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 méi
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 枚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 méi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mwoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˁəj/
English stem, branch

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 枚
Reading # 1/1
No. 13012
Phonetic
component		 文
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 枚
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯːl/

Definitions

枚

  1. stalk of shrub; trunk of tree
  2. wooden peg (historically used as a gag for marching soldiers to prevent talking)
  3. one by one; each
  4. Classifier for small, flat objects, such as coins, stamps, badges, pearls, sporting medals. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  5. Classifier for rockets, satellites and certain weapons (especially bombs).
  6. (literary or Hainanese) Classifier for miscellany, general classifier.
  7. A surname​.

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 個 (“classifier for people”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 個
Mandarin Beijing 個
Taiwan 個
Jinan 個
Xi'an 個
Wuhan 個
Chengdu 個
Yangzhou 個
Hefei 個
Cantonese Guangzhou 個
Hong Kong 個
Taishan 個
Yangjiang 個
Gan Nanchang 個, 隻
Hakka Meixian 隻
Huizhou Jixi 個
Jin Taiyuan 個
Min Bei Jian'ou 隻
Min Dong Fuzhou 隻, 個
Changle 隻
Fuqing 隻
Yongtai 隻
Gutian 隻
Fu'an 隻
Ningde 隻
Shouning 個
Zhouning 隻
Fuding 個
Min Nan Xiamen 個
Taipei 個
Kaohsiung 個
Penang 個
Chaozhou 個
Haikou 個, 枚
Wu Shanghai 個
Suzhou 個
Wenzhou 個
Xiang Changsha 個, 隻
Shuangfeng 個

Compounds
  • 鉗馬銜枚／钳马衔枚
  • 銜枚／衔枚
  • 馬工枚速／马工枚速

Japanese

Kanji
枚

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings
  • Go-on: まい (mai, Jōyō); め (me)
  • Kan-on: ばい (bai)
  • Kun: ひら (hira, 枚)

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
枚
ひら
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

pira > ɸira > hira. Cognate with 平 (hira, “flat”).

Alternative forms

Noun

枚 (hiragana ひら, rōmaji hira)

  1. an object that is thin and flat
Derived terms

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
枚
まい
Grade: 6
on’yomi

Counter

枚 (hiragana まい, rōmaji -mai)

  1. counter for flat thin objects or sheets

See also
Japanese number-counter combinations for 枚 (まい) (mai)
1 2 3 4 5
一 (いち)枚 (まい) (ichimai) 二 (に)枚 (まい) (nimai) 三 (さん)枚 (まい) (sanmai) 四 (よん)枚 (まい) (yonmai)
四 (よ)枚 (まい) (yomai)		 五 (ご)枚 (まい) (gomai)
6 7 8 9 10
六 (ろく)枚 (まい) (rokumai) 七 (なな)枚 (まい) (nanamai)
七 (しち)枚 (まい) (shichimai)		 八 (はち)枚 (まい) (hachimai) 九 (きゅう)枚 (まい) (kyūmai) 十 (じゅう)枚 (まい) (jūmai)
100 1,000 10,000 How many?
百 (ひゃく)枚 (まい) (hyakumai) 千 (せん)枚 (まい) (senmai) 一 (いち)万 (まん)枚 (まい) (ichimanmai) 何 (なん)枚 (まい) (nanmai)

Korean

Hanja

枚 (eum 매 (mae))

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Vietnamese

Han character

枚: Hán Nôm readings: mai

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