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The Chinese word for plum is
梅子

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plum

Chinese Definition


plum
     1. 李子
     2. 梅子
     3. 葡萄乾
     4. 最佳部份
     5. 十万磅金钱
     6. 报偿
     7. 意外收益
     8. 近深蓝色的紫色
     9.
Components
     1. Prunus mume (Chinese plum or Japanese apricot)
           話梅 - li hing mui
           烏梅 - smoked plum
     2. (in compounds) A plant sharing similarities with Prunus mume in habit, flowers or fruits
           蠟梅 - Chimonanthus praecox
           茶梅 - Camellia sasanqua
           楊梅 - Myrica rubra
           西梅 - Prunus domestica
     3. (obsolete) (zh-alt-name, 楠, gloss=)
     4. Short for 梅雨
     5. Short for 梅州
           w:zh:梅光達\梅光達 - Mei Quong Tart (q-lite, merchant)
           w:zh:梅艷芳\梅艷芳 - Anita Mui (q-lite, singer)
     1. (literary) child; offspring
     2. son
           獨生子 - dúshēngzǐ - only son
           愛子 - àizǐ - beloved son
           一 子 一 女 - yī zǐ yī nǚ - one son and one daughter
     3. (literary) descendant; posterity
     4. (Christianity) the Son
     5. (in compounds) person
           女子 (nǚzǐ) - female; woman
     6. (literary) master; teacher
     7. (literary) A respectful title for teachers, usually attached after their surnames.
           ^孔子 (Kǒngzǐ) - Master Kong (Confucius)
           ^老子 (Lǎozǐ) - Laozi
     8. (literary, polite) you
     9. Alternative form of 籽 (seed); also its second-round simplified form.
           葵花子 (kuíhuāzǐ) - sunflower seed
     10. egg
           魚子 (yúzǐ) - caviar
     11. young; tender; small
     12. Prefix attached to nouns, denoting "a part of", "belonging to" or "individual". sub-
           子目錄 (zǐmùlù) - subdirectory
     13. (astrology) First earthly branch: rat in the Chinese zodiac, 11th solar month, midnight (11:00 pm to 1:00 am)
     14. (historical) viscount (fourth of five ranks of Chinese aristocracy under the Zhou dynasty)
     15. (physics, biology) -on
     16. (Min Nan) grain-like object; particle; granule
     17. (Min Nan, music) rhythm
     18. (Min Nan)
     19. Suffix:
     20.    Used to nominalize.
     21.    瓶子zi - píngzi - bottle
     22.    刷子zi - shuāzi - brush
     23.    胖子zi - pàngzi - fat person
     24.    (colloquial) Used in some classifiers.
     25.    一下子zi - yīxiàzi - all of a sudden
     26. small, round object
           算盤子jí (sǹg-pôaⁿ-jí) - abacus bead, MN
     27. (Xiamen, Quanzhou)
     28. (Zhangzhou, Taiwan)



Translations for and their definitions

     1. plum (tree and fruit)
     2. , listed fourth in the Baijiaxing
           ^李 ^白 - Li Bai (Li Bo) (Tang dynasty poet)
           李 連 杰 - Jet Li (Li Lianjie or Li Yangzhong)
     3. usage. In mainland China and among its expatriates, this surname is generally romanized as "Li" in accordance with the Hanyu Pinyin system. Although an identical transliteration is used in Wade-Giles, simila


梅子
     1. n. Asian plum (the fruit of Prunus mume)
     2. n. (Wuhan Mandarin, Xinzhou Jin) club (♣)


李子
     1. n. plum


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