The Chinese word for plum is
梅子

méi zi

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. 李
Components
梅
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)
子
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 子 and their definitions

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

李子
1. n. plum

李
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