枚乘

Méi Chéng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Mei Cheng (d. c. 140 BC), Western Han writer of fu rhapsodies

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Examples

HSK 5

枚乘是西汉有名的文学家。

Méi Chéng shì Xīhàn yǒumíng de wénxuéjiā.

Mei Cheng was a well-known writer of the Western Han.

HSK 7-9

成语“千钧一发”出自枚乘给吴王写的一封信。

Chéngyǔ " qiānjūn-yífà " chūzì Méi Chéng gěi Wúwáng xiě de yì fēng xìn.

The idiom "a thousand jun hanging by a hair" comes from a letter Mei Cheng wrote to the King of Wu.

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history

He served 刘濞, King of Wu, and wrote to warn him against rebellion, comparing the danger to a thousand-jun weight hanging by a single thread. Wu rebelled anyway in the Rebellion of the Seven States of 154 BC and was crushed. His 《七发》 'Seven Stimuli' began a whole genre of fu built on seven persuasions.

mistakes

The usual modern reading is Méi Chéng. Older reference works read his name Méi Shèng, with 乘 as in 'chariot'.

Stroke Order

枚 méi

乘 chéng