méi

mold

A small  black  growth;  also provides the pronunciation

Components
微 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

wēi

  

small

黑 meaning component

  Meaning component

hēi

  

black

Evolution

黴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
黴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

méi

mold, mildew; bacteria, fungi

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méi

variant of [méi]

Most common words with 黴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

倒霉

to have bad luck

fungi

青霉素

penicillin

霉菌

mold

发霉

to become moldy

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.8144% of movies

1863rd most common character in movies

2425th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Unicode

U+9EF4

Shuowen

“黴,中久雨青黑。从黑,微省聲。”


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