méi mu
progress
prospect of solution
sign of positive outcome
Dà mu zhǐ
Tom Thumb (small person in folk tales)
Wú Zì mù
Wu Zimu (lived c. 1270), writer at the end of the Song dynasty
chī mu hū
(dialect) gum (in one's eyes)
shù qǐ dà mu zhǐ
to give a thumbs-up
to express one's approval