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玫

méi

Character

What 玫 means

1. (fine jade)
2. used in {玫瑰|méi guī}

Example sentences

• 玫瑰有刺。
  Roses have thorns.
• 玫瑰花蕾。
  Rosebud.
• 她种了玫瑰。
  She grew roses.
• 这玫瑰花很美丽。
  This rose is beautiful.
• 这朵玫瑰很漂亮。
  This rose is very beautiful.
• 玫瑰是粉红色的。
  The rose is pink.

Words starting with 玫

• 玫瑰méi guīrugosa rose (shrub) (Rosa rugosa); rose flower
• 玫瑰花méi guī huārose
• 玫瑰果méi guī guǒrose hip
• 玫瑰念珠méi gui niàn zhūrosary (Catholic prayer beads)
• 玫瑰战争Méi guī Zhàn zhēngThe Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
• 玫瑰星云méi guī xīng yúnRosette nebula NGC 2237
• 玫红眉朱雀méi hóng méi zhū què(bird species of China) pink-browed rosefinch (Carpodacus rodochroa)
• 玫瑰茄méi gui qiéroselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa)

Words containing 玫

• 托勒玫Tuō lè méiPtolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer…

Characters that look like 玫

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 政zhèngpolitical; politics; government
• 改gǎito change; to alter; to transform
• 败bàito defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent)
• 纹wénline; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc); to tattoo
• 坎kǎnpit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦
• 坟féngrave; tomb; embankment

Sounds the same

Read méi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 没(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
• 媒medium; intermediary; matchmaker
• 煤coal
• 眉eyebrow; upper margin
• 霉mold; mildew; to become moldy
• 枚classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs…
• 梅plum; plum flower; Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
• 莓(bound form) berry (e.g. strawberry, blackberry, loganberry)
• 酶enzyme; ferment
• 湄(literary) shore; coast; bank
• 楣lintel; crossbeam
• 糜millet