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- classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个[ge4])
- classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc
- (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai")
- (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
- Yuan Mei (1716–1797), Qing poet, essayist and gastronome, one of the Three Great Masters of the Qianlong-Jiaqing period 乾嘉三大家[Qian2 Jia1 San1 Da4 jia1]
- drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand
- to choose officials by divination (archaic)
- to practice divination without a definite question
Trad. 馬工枚速
- Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom)
- to each his good points
Trad. 不勝枚舉
- too numerous to mention individually or one by one
Trad. 鉗馬銜枚
- with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom)
- (of a marching army) in utter silence