Example sentences
tā他měi每tiān天pǎo跑bù步。
He runs every day.
měi每gè个hái孩zi子dōu都xǐ喜huan欢。
Every child likes it.
The story behind the character
每
每 sits on 母 with strokes rising off the top of the head. Xu Shen read those strokes as grass and glossed the character 艸盛上出也, plants pushing up thick and high. Other scholars look at the oldest forms and see a woman with an elaborate hairpin. Either way, the character was borrowed for "each" and the plants or the hairpin got left behind.