Chinese Character Wiki
每

měi

every

Original meaning: 

young woman of marriageable age

Pictograph of a woman (母) with a hairpin in her hair. In ancient China, women of marriageable age wore a hairpin. Based on the original meaning "young woman" The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a hairpin.

母 iconic component

母  Iconic component

mǔ

  

mother

Evolution

每 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
每 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
每 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
每 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
每 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

每  

měi

every, each; each; every

Most common words with 每
Freq.
Word
Meaning

每

each

每天

every day

每次

every time

每年

every year

每个人

everybody

Component uses

Sound component in 11 characters (3 verified)

海 梅 悔 敏 霉 酶 晦 誨 诲 莓 脢

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

毓

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤəʔ

mwojX

měi

each


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 92.6478% of movies

276th most common character in movies

359th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6BCF

Shuowen

“，艸盛上出也。从屮，母聲。”


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