Kanji

美

Meaning

beauty and beautiful

Readings

Kun'yomi

  • うつくしい

On'yomi

  • び じゅつ art
  • び じゅつかん art museum
  • び じん beautiful woman
  • み ごと splendid
  • ご み ばこ trash can
  • み そら beautiful sky

Practice Writing

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Related Entries

美 み
august, beautiful
美 び
beauty

Component Analysis

美
beauty, beautiful
うつく.しい, ビ, ミ
𦍌
䒑
grass, straw, herbs...
土
soil, earth, ground...
つち, ド, ト
大
large, big
おお-, おお.きい, ダイ
一
one, one radical (no.1)
ひと-, ひと.つ, イチ
人
person
ひと, -り, ジン

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