美

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See also 菐, and 実

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[edit] Translingual

Japanese stroke order
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Stroke order
美-order.gif

[edit] Etymology

Ideogram (指事): 羊 (“goat, sheep”) + 大 (“person”) – a person with a goat headdress.

[edit] Han character

美 (radical 123 羊+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿土大 (TGK), four-corner 80431)

  1. beautiful, pretty
  2. pleasing
  3. last name (female)

[edit] Descendants

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 951, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28435
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1393, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3126, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7F8E

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

美 (Yale mei5)

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

美 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

[edit] Readings

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Names

  • suffix used by female given names, such as 奈美(なみ, Nami), 恵美(えみ, Emi; めぐみ, Megumi), 宏美(ひろみ, Hiromi).
  • (rare) suffix used by male given names.

[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

美 (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune-Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

美 (pinyin měi (mei3), xì (xi4), Wade-Giles mei3, hsi4)

[edit] Compounds

compound words that contain 美

[edit] Adjective

美 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin měi)

  1. beautiful
  2. delicious

[edit] Verb

美 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin měi)

  1. Praise

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

美 (mỹ, mĩ, mẻ, mỉ)

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