美 (mei5 | mei3) : beautiful

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美

mei5

mei3

[1] beautiful; pretty; pleasing; fine; fair [2] good; excellent; exquisite; nice [3] be pleased with oneself [4] [v] praise

Stroke count: 9

Level: 2

Radical: 羊 (#123)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

美

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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美國 mei5 gwok3 mei3 guo2 = America, USA

美人魚 mei5 jan4 jyu4 mei3 ren2 yu2 = Mermaid (Beautiful)

美國人 mei5 gwok3 jan4 mei3 guo2 ren2 = American person

美好 mei5 hou2 mei3 hao3 = OK, fine

華美 waa4 mei5 hua2 mei3 = magnificent, resplendent; China and the United States; Wah May

美人 mei5 jan4 mei3 ren2 = beautiful woman; beauty, belle; court rank for imperial madame "beautiful woman"

美味 mei5 mei6 mei3 wei4 = delicious; tasty

一百萬美金 jat1 baak3 maan6 mei5 gam1 = Megabucks, the million lottery

中美 zung1 mei5 zhong1 mei3 = China-USA; (placename) Chung May

美中 mei5 zung1 mei3 zhong1 = USA-China
See all 214 compounds (CantoDict reports 228 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 6 examples containing 美

我來自美國。國
I'm from the United States.

燭光照的妳真美麗！國
You look beautiful in the candlelight!

讀書，你決定去美國定去法國呀？粵
Have you decided to go to America or France to study?

九大簋加上美女就真係錦上添花啦粵
Having this feast with such beauties is indeed beyond perfection.

有啲人嘅審美觀念好差㗎粵
Some people do have a very bad sense of aesthetics.

波拉特係個哈薩克斯坦人；佢唔係美國人呀粵
Borat is from Kazakhstan; he is not an American.

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Decimal representation of this word: 美
Unicode code for this character: U+7F8E (off-site link)

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