Appendix:Gikun Usage in Meiji Version of Japanese Bible/美色

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term
美 色
Grade: 3 Grade: 2
irregular

Etymology[edit]

Gikun word derived by applying Chinese-derived spelling 美色 (“beauty”, of personal appearance), a term which decomposes into 美 (“beauty”) + 色 (“color”, used metaphorically for beautiful personal appearance), to native Japanese word うるはしき (uruwashiki, “beautiful”) to denote beauty of personal appearance.

Noun[edit]

美色 (うるわしき)／美色 (うるはしき)[1] (uruwashiki, Historical hiragana: うるはしき, classical form of うるわ.しい, uruwa.shii)　→　麗 (うるわ)しい (uruwa.shii)

  1. beauty (of personal appearance)

Quotations[edit]

  1. ^ OT, page 903:
    艶麗(つややか)はいつはりなり美色(うるはしき)は呼吸(いき)のごとし惟(ただ)ヱホバを畏(おそ)るる女(をんな)は譽(ほめ)られん
    Tsuyayaka wa itsuwari nari, uruwashiki wa iki no gotoshi: Tada Ehoba wo osoruru onna wa homeraren
    Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
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