霉 (méi)
Mold; mildew; unlucky
How 霉 is written
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 雨 — rain
- Traditional
- 霉
- Simplified
- 霉 (unchanged)
Common words using 霉
- 倒霉 dǎoméi
- to have bad luck; to be out of luck
- 發霉 fāméi
- to become moldy
- 霉素 méisù
- teichomycin; -mycin
- 慶大霉素 qìngdàméisù
- gentamycin (antibiotic)
- 氯霉素 lǜméisù
- chloramphenicol; chloromycetin
- 紅霉素 hóngméisù
- erythromycin
- 防霉 fángméi
- rot proof; resistance to rot
- 霉氣 méiqì
- a moldy smell; damp and rotten; fig. rotten bad luck
- 霉爛 méilàn
- mold; rot; gangrene
- 霉菌 méijūn
- mould; mold
- 霉雨 méiyǔ
- Asian rainy season; monsoon; (usually written 梅雨)
- 青霉素 qīngméisù
- penicillin
霉 in a sentence
這塊麵包發霉了，不能吃。
Zhè kuài miànbāo fāméi le, bùnéng chī.
“This piece of bread is moldy, you can't eat it.”
How common is 霉?
霉 is the 2,420th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.3% of all running text.
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