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mei5
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[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)
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| This character was last edited on 1st Aug 2008 | |
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美國
mei5 gwok3 = America, USA
美國人
mei5 gwok3 jan4 = American person
美好
mei5 hou2 = OK, fine
華美
waa4 mei5 = China and the United States, China and America, Sino-America; (placename) Wah May
美人
mei5 jan4 = beautiful woman; beauty, belle; court rank for imperial madame "beautiful woman"
美人魚
mei5 jan4 jyu4 = Mermaid (Beautiful)
美味
mei5 mei6 = delicious; tasty
十全十美
sap6 cyun4 sap6 mei5 = (phrase) perfect
一百萬美金
jat1 baak3 maan6 mei5 gam1 = Megabucks, the million lottery
中美
zung1 mei5 = China-USA; (placename) Chung MaySee all 194 compounds |
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Showing all 4 examples containing 美
我來自美國。 國
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I'm from the United States.
燭光照的妳真美麗！ 國
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You look beautiful in the candlelight!
九大簋加上美女就真係錦上添花啦 粵
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Having this feast with such beauties is indeed beyond perfection.
波拉特係個哈薩克斯坦人；佢唔係美國人呀 粵
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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)
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/257/]美[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/257/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">美</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 美
Unicode code for this character: U+7F8E (off-site link)
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