méi

water's edge

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

water

眉 sound component

  Sound component

méi

  

eyebrows

Evolution

湄 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
湄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
湄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

méi

water's edge, shore, bank; brink; edge

Most common words with 湄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

湄公河

Mekong River

brink

湄潭

Meitan county in Zun'yi 遵義|遵义[Zūn​yì], Guizhou

湄潭县

Meitan county in Zun'yi 遵義|遵义[Zūn​yì], Guizhou

湄洲岛

Meizhou Island (Putian)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3639th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6E44

Shuowen

“湄,水艸交為湄。从水,眉聲。”


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