霉
黴méi
#2,420 most
frequent character
variant of 霉[mei2]
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
霉 has 雨, rain, as the meaning part and 每 měi as the sound part, differing in tone. Rain suggests the first meaning, black mold on things left out in it. It then came to mean mold or mildew generally.
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