Mei (surname) Mei () is a romanized spelling of a Chinese surname, transcribed in the Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect. In Hong Kong and other Cantonese-speaking regions, the name may be transliterated as Mui or Moy.Louie, Emma Woo: "Chinese American Names"., p ...
, a Chinese, Italian, Russian or Estonian family name
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Mei (given name)
Mei (Japanese: , Mandarin: 美) is a feminine given name used in various cultures, particularly Japan and China.
Possible writings
Mei can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
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, a given name
Places
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Mei County, Guangdong
Meixian (, Hakka: Moiyen), formerly Meihsien, is a district (China), district of Meizhou, Meizhou City, in northeastern Guangdong, Guangdong Province, China. The county is an important Hakka settlement and is the ancestral home of many Hakka de ...
, China, a county
* Mei Pass, Guangdong, a strategic mountain pass
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Mei River
The Mei River (Chinese: 梅 江; Pinyin: Méi Jiāng) is a river in Meizhou City in the eastern part of the Guangdong province in southern China and a tributary of the Han River. Major bridges over it include the Jianying Memorial Bridge
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, Guangdong
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Mei County, Shaanxi
Mei County or Meixian () is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Baoji, in the west of Shaanxi province, China. It is one of the birthplaces of the Western Zhou culture, during which it was known as Taiguo (邰国). ...
Arcos de Valdevez Municipality
Arcos de Valdevez () is a municipality along the northern frontier of Portugal and Galicia (Spain). The population in 2011 was 22,847,Mei (''Overwatch''), a playable character in ''Overwatch'' and ''Heroes of the Storm''
* Mei, a character in the anime series ''
Endro!
is a Japanese original anime television series by Studio Gokumi. The series aired in Japan between January and March 2019, and a manga adaptation was serialized from August 9, 2018 to February 15, 2019. The anime series is licensed in North ...
Mei Fong
Mei Fong (born August 8, 1972), also known as Fong Foongmei (), is a Malaysian-born American journalist who was staff reporter for the China bureau for ''The Wall Street Journal''. In April 2007, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International ...
My Neighbor Totoro
is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten. The film—which stars the voice actors Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, and Hitoshi Takagi—tells the story of a ...
* Mei Meido from the manga ''
Kimi no koto ga Dai Dai Dai Dai Daisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo
often referred to simply as is a Japanese harem and romantic comedy manga series written by Rikito Nakamura and illustrated by Yukiko Nozawa. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Young Jump'' since Decembe ...
Methyl iodide
Iodomethane, also called methyl iodide, and commonly abbreviated "MeI", is the chemical compound with the formula CH3I. It is a dense, colorless, volatile liquid. In terms of chemical structure, it is related to methane by replacement of one h ...
, a chemical compound commonly abbreviated MeI
* mei, ISO 639-3 code for the
Midob language
Midob (also spelt Meidob) is the language of the Midob people of North Darfur, Sudan. It is one of the Nubian languages, which are part of the Nilo-Saharan language phylum.
Apart from in their homeland of Malha, North Darfur, Midob speakers also ...
of Sudan
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Prunus mume
''Prunus mume'' is an East Asian and Southeast Asian tree species classified in the ''Armeniaca'' section of the genus ''Prunus'' subgenus ''Prunus''. Its common names include Chinese plum, Japanese plum, and Japanese apricot. The flower, long ...
'', a "Chinese plum" known as mei (Chinese: 梅; pinyin: ''méi'')
See also
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Mei Mei
''Mei Mei'' is a 2009 Chinese and US co-production drama short film directed by Xu Xiaoxi and written by Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi. The film's premiere took place in Hungary, where the film was part of the official selection at the 3rd ...
Persian wine
Persian wine, also called Mey ( fa, ) and Badeh (), is a cultural symbol and tradition in Iran (Persia), and has a significant presence in Persian mythology, Persian poetry and Persian miniatures.
History
Recent archaeological research has pushe ...
used in traditional Persian culture
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