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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
- —美術家artist
- —美顔水face lotion
- —美顔術(a) facial; facial treatment; beauty treatment (for the face)
- —自然美natural beauty
- —耽美派aesthetic school
- —審美的aesthetic
- —審美学aesthetics
- —賛美歌hymn; psalm
- —男性美masculine beauty
- —形式美beauty of form
- —醜と美ugliness and beauty
- —美術書art book
- —美術商art dealer; fine art(s) shop
- —美術部art club
- —不美人plain woman
- —美化語elegant speech (esp. the use of the prefixes "o-" and "go-"); refined language; polite language
- —美容室beauty parlor
- —美人画portrait of a beautiful woman (esp. ukiyo-e); bijin-ga
- —古美術antiques; old works of art
- —美容法beauty regimen; beauty treatment; cosmetic technique