The Chinese Radical: 每


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Meaning
each, every    每

Explanation The same meaning has 各

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
every, each
měi
At top: lying person as a flat variant of 人, below: mother 母 (= woman 女 with emphasized, swollen bosom : when breast-feeding)
Persons have mothers: every!  
HSK 4
regret, remorse, repentance
huǐ
Left: feeling 忄, right: each/every 每 (every person 人 = has a mother 母) [母 = woman 女 with emphasized, swollen bosom : when breast-feeding]
A feeling that everyone has (at times) is regret.  
HSK 4
ocean, sea
hǎi
Left: water 氵, right: every 每 (every person 人 = has a mother 母) [母 = woman 女 with emphasized swollen breasts : when breast-feeding]
Water is in every ocean.  
HSK 5
in great numbers, miscellaneous, many
fán
Top: quick, nimble 敏 (Every 每 strike 攵/攴 must be quick), bottom: thread 糸
(Threads were made of vegetable fibers [like flax / linum] by strikes.) Every strike on the threads stands for a great number.  
HSK 5
quick, nimble, agile, clever, sensitive
mǐn
Left: each/every 每 (every person 人 = has a mother 母) [母 = woman 女 with bosom : ], right: strike 攵/攴 (hand 又 with a stick 卜)
Every strike has to be quick.  
HSK 5
mold, mildew, fungi, moldy
méi
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), bottom: every 每 (every person 人 = has a mother 母)
At rain everything is affected by: mold.  
HSK 6
to insult, to ridicule, to disgrace

Left: person 人, right: each/often 每 (every person 人 = has a mother 母 [母 = breast-feeding woman 女 with emphasized bosom : ])
This is a person everybody wants to insult.  
no HSK
plum (=ume), Japanese apricot
méi
Left: tree 木, right: every 每 (every person 人 = has a mother 母.)
The tree for everybody is the plum tree.  
no HSK
(archaic) to give birth to a child, to rear

Left: every 每 (Every person 人 = has a mother 母.), right: 㐬 ("newborn baby" as a child turned upside down : the child 子 comes with head first, with amniotic fluid 川)
Every mother with the newborn stands for: giving birth.  
no HSK
enzyme, ferment
méi
Left: alcohol 酉, right: every 每 (every person 人 = has a mother 母)
For (the production [or degradation]) of alcohol, you/everybody need an enzyme.  
no HSK
dark, night, unlucky
huì
Left: sun 日, right: every 每 (every person 人 = has a mother 母)
(You get suntanned face color.) In the sun, everybody gets dark.  
no HSK
to instruct, to teach, to induce
huì
Left: word 讠/言, right: everybody 每 (every person 人 = has a mother 母 [母 = woman 女 with emphasized bosom : ])
With words everybody can be instructed.  

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