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美 kanji
beauty, beautiful
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
ビミ
Kun readings
うつくしい
Words with 美
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —美的嫌悪aesthetic aversion
- —美容整形cosmetic surgery
- —美容体操calisthenics; callisthenics
- —唯美主義aestheticism; estheticism
- —音楽美学musical aesthetics
- —工芸美術applied fine arts
- —美化運動clean-up campaign; beautification drive
- —美的生活an aesthetic existence
- —美美しいbeautiful
- —耽美主義aestheticism
- —良風美俗good customs
- —月下美人Dutchman's pipe cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum); night-blooming cereus; queen of the night
- —精神の美mental charm; moral beauty
- —前衛美術avant-garde art
- —美術監督art director
- —美酒佳肴fine wines and prized delicacies
- —美人薄命beauty and fortune seldom go together; the beautiful die young
- —性格美人woman with a wonderful personality
- —整形美人plastic-surgery beauty; woman made beautiful by cosmetic surgery
- —美味佳肴delicacies; epicurean dishes