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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)
On readings
ビミ
Kun readings
うつくしい
Words with 美
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —艶美sensuously beautiful; seductively beautiful; voluptuous
- —美文flowery prose
- —美本attractively bound book
- —美田fertile, productive field
- —美妓beautiful maiko or geisha
- —美形beautiful face; beautiful looks; beauty; belle; handsome man
- —美声beautiful voice
- —美技excellent performance; fine play
- —美育training in aesthetics; aesthetic education; cultural study
- —美服fine clothing
- —美俗a fine custom
- —美音a sweet voice
- —美食gourmet food; delicious food; dining on gourmet food; following a lavish diet; living as an epicure
- —美酒high-grade sake; fine drink
- —美挙praiseworthy undertaking; commendable act
- —美称eulogistic name; poetic name; euphemism
- —美景beautiful scenery
- —美感sense of beauty; aesthetic sense
- —美辞flowery language; pretty words
- —美髪beautiful hair