Kanji1 / 9
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
- —福井県立美術館Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art
- —福岡県立美術館Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
- —福島県立美術館Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art
- —兵庫県立美術館Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
- —平福記念美術館Hirafuku Memorial Art Museum
- —眠れる森の美女Sleeping Beauty (ballet by Tchaikovsky)
- —美辞麗句を連ねるto declaim; to string together all sorts of flowery words
- —文部省美術展覧会Bunten exhibition; annual art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition)
- —愛知美容専門学校Aichi Beauty College
- —金沢美術工芸大学Kanazawa College of Art
- —日本歯科審美学会Japan Academy of Esthetic Dentistry
- —日本美術教育学会Art Education Society of Japan
- —日本美容外科学会Japan Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; JSAPS
- —北九州市立美術館Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; KMMA
- —京都美術工芸大学Kyoto University of Arts and Crafts
- —秋田公立美術大学Akita University of Art
- —星美学園短期大学Seibi Gakuen College
- —マルクス主義的美学Marxist aesthetics
- —美人は三日で飽きるbeauty is only skin-deep; one gets tired of a beauty in three days
- —京都国立近代美術館Kyoto National Museum of Modern Arts; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto