美
美 — mi
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 아름다울 미
- Romanization
- mi
- English
- beautiful, pretty; pleasing
- Mandarin
- měi
- Japanese on'yomi
- ビ, ミ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- うつく.しい
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #462 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 羊 (123, 3 residual)
- Unicode
- U+7F8E
Parts that make up 美
How 美 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 美 as a ideographic compound involving 羊, 大.
Korean example words with 美
- 미불美弗 Korean gloss: 미국의 화폐
- 미석美石 Korean gloss: 아름다운 돌
- 미식美式 Korean gloss: 미국의 방식
- 미경美景 Korean gloss: 아름다운 경치
- 미물美物 Korean gloss: 아름다운 물건
- 미부美婦 Korean gloss: 아름다운 부인
- 미색美色 Korean gloss: 아름다운 빛깔
- 미속美俗 Korean gloss: 아름다운 풍속
- 미안美顔 Korean gloss: 아름다운 얼굴
- 미태美態 Korean gloss: 아름다운 자태
- 미행美行 Korean gloss: 아름다운 행동
- 미희美姬 Korean gloss: 아름다운 여자
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 美
- 美術びじゅつ art; fine arts
- 美術館びじゅつかん art museum; art gallery
- 美しいうつくしい beautiful; pretty; lovely
- 美び beauty
- 美人びじん beautiful woman; (a) beauty; belle
- 美容びよう beauty; good figure; (beautiful) appearance
- 美女びじょ beautiful woman
- 美術展びじゅつてん art exhibition
- 美学びがく esthetics; aesthetics
- 優美ゆうび grace; refinement; elegance
- 美容師びようし beautician; cosmetician; hairdresser
- 美意識びいしき sense of beauty; aesthetic sense; attention to one's appearance
Other hanja read “미”
Other hanja with radical 羊
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences