美

See also: 菐 and 実
美 U+7F8E, 美
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F8E
← 羍
[U+7F8D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 羏 →
[U+7F8F]

Translingual

Japanese stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

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

Descendants

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 美
alt. forms 媄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (美) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
美 *mriʔ
渼 *mriʔ
媄 *mriʔ

Ideogram (指事) : 羊 (“goat, sheep”) + 人 (“person”) – a person with a headdress of feathers or ram's horn.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 美
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 無鄙切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mjiX/
Li
Rong		 /mjiX/
Wang
Li		 /miX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /miX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mǐ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 美
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 měi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mijX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m]rəjʔ/
English beautiful

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 美
Reading # 1/1
No. 8951
Phonetic
component		 美
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 美
Old
Chinese		 /*mriʔ/
Notes 甲文象大人首插翎羽表美觀，取陳獨秀說

Definitions

美

  1. beautiful; pretty; attractive; good-looking
    美人  ―  měirén  ―  beautiful woman
  2. delicious; tasty; flavoursome
    美食  ―  měishí  ―  culinary delicacy
  3. good; fine; satisfactory; happy
  4. to beautify; to prettify
  5. to praise; to commend
  6. (dialectal) to be pleased with oneself
  7. beautiful things; beauty
  8. Short for 美洲 (Měizhōu, “America (continent)”).
  9. Short for 美國／美国 (Měiguó, “United States of America”).
  10. A surname​. Mei

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

美

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. beauty; beautiful

Readings

Compounds

Suffix

美 (hiragana み, rōmaji -mi)

  1. 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)
  2. (rare) suffix used by male given names

Korean

Hanja

美 • (mi) (hangeul 미, McCune–Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

  1. the USA, the Americas (in compounds, in news media)
  2. beautiful

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

  1. The United States of America, America
  2. Beautiful
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