枚
méi · HSK 7
enzyme; flare; ferment; school
🪙 枚 = 木 wood + 攵 tap; a measure word for small flat things, and méi sounds like may
Built from 木 (wood) plus 攵 (a tapping or rapping radical). 枚 méi is the measure word once used for coins, stamps, and medals. Hook the reading by méi rhyming with may.
枚 — wood 木 + strike 攵
枚 combines 木 (tree/wood) with 攵 (a hand holding a stick), originally depicting a small wooden stick or twig broken from a tree. From this concrete sense it became a measure word for small, slender objects like coins, badges, or pins. The stick meaning is largely archaic today.