美
měiTraditional: 美
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Translation
beautiful, pretty, America
Word origin
An ideographic character showing 羊 (yáng, sheep) over 大 (dà, big); a big, fine sheep was prized, giving the sense beautiful and good.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 羊 (sheep) over 大 (big)
Stroke order
美
Examples
风景。
The scenery here is really beautiful.
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She is very beautiful.
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This song is lovely.
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He works in America.
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Life is getting more and more beautiful.
美 (měi) means beautiful, pretty, America. It is an adjective for beauty and also the short form for the United States.
Appears in 6 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 美.
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