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Mei is composed of 火 huo fire as radical and 某 as phonetic. It means soot, and is also used for charcoal.

Shan see.

Shih is composed of the walking radical with 折 shê as phonetic, and means to go, to pass away. [Ch'ung Chêng, after the capture of Peking by rebels, committed suicide on a hill said to be of coal which stands within the precincts of the Imperial palace, A.D. 1644. The rebels were driven out by the Manchus, and the present dynasty was established.]