Kanji1 / 9
美 kanji
beauty, beautiful
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
Practice writing
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On readings
ビミ
Kun readings
うつくしい
Words with 美
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —讃美praise; glorification; extolment
- —讚美praise; glorification; extolment
- —称美admiration; praise; prizing; appreciation
- —歎美admiration; adoration; extolling
- —明美picturesque (scenery); unspoilt; beautiful
- —美膚beautiful skin
- —醇美absolute beauty; classical beauty
- —美睫beautiful eyelashes
- —讃美歌hymn; psalm
- —讚美歌hymn; psalm
- —御褒美reward; prize; treat; delight; small joy
- —美容柳Chinese hypericum (Hypericum monogynum)
- —造型美beauty of form (oft. used of nature); beauty of a sculpted shape
- —美睫毛beautiful eyelashes
- —淳風美俗good morals and manners; genial manners and laudable customs; pristine way of life
- —美々しいbeautiful
- —風光明美scenic; beautiful; picturesque
- —恵美須鮫broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus, species of circumglobal cow shark with 7 gill slits)
- —美まつ毛beautiful eyelashes
- —恵美須鯛Japanese soldierfish (Ostichthys japonicus)