Mei [měi], stroke 9, five strokes, UGDU. radical, 大. Structure, Upper and Lower, Five Elements, Water.
Stroke order, dot, apostrophe, horizontal, horizontal, vertical, horizontal, horizontal, apostrophe, down.
Detailed Interpretation〈形〉, (Congruent. Jinwen zigzag, from sheep, from big, the ancients used sheep as the main by-products, fat and strong sheep to eat the taste is very beautiful. The original meaning: taste beautiful)
The same original meaning, beautiful, sweet also. --Shuowen
Then the beauty of heaven and earth is born. -- "Guanzi - Five Elements". Note: "It is said that the sweet spring of manna and the like is also."
Food must be precious and beautiful. --Ming Liu Ji, "The Collected Writings of Liu Wencheng Gong of Cheng Yi Bo"
Another example: beautiful wine; Mei Gan Gan (describing very sweet or sweet); delicious (good taste; tasty food); gourmet food (food that tastes good; eating food that tastes good)
Shape is good-looking, beautiful. Mei Meng Jiang is also. --Poetry-_Winds-Sangzhong
Mei Meng Yi is also beautiful.
Which of me is as beautiful as Xu Gong in the north of the city?
Who can be as beautiful as Xu Gong in the north of the city? Qi Ce (齐策)
梅以曲为美,直则无姿。 --Gong Zizhen, "Records of the Sick Plum Pavilion"
And such as: Mei Ji (beautiful woman); Mei Fai (beautiful women; beautiful people); Mei Shi (pretty posture); Mei Shao (handsome, beautiful)
Beautifully, the syllable is the most natural structural unit in speech. To be precise, the syllable is the smallest structural unit of speech composed of a combination of phonemic positions. Its composition is divided into three parts: the head, the belly and the tail, and thus the syllables have clearly perceptible boundaries between them.
In Chinese, the pronunciation of a Chinese character is generally a syllable. In Mandarin, there are 400 basic untuned syllables and more than 1,300 toned syllables (excluding soft tones). Syllables are not the same as musical measures, which many people confuse and should be distinguished.