美
Meanings
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- 1.beautiful
- 2.very satisfactory; good
- 3.to beautify
- 4.to be pleased with oneself
- 1.(bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲[Měi zhōu])
- 2.(bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国[Měi guó])
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Wiktionary
- 1.beautiful; pretty; attractive; good-looking
- 2.delicious; tasty; flavoursome
- 3.good; fine; satisfactory; happy
- 4.to beautify; to prettify
- 5.to praise; to commend
- 6.to be pleased with oneself
- 7.beautiful things; beauty
- 8.a surname, Mei
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a person (大) wearing a headdress (now written 羊) of feathers or ram's horn. The modern form could be considered an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 羊 (“ram or feathers”) + 大 (“person”). See also 敖, 冒, and 免. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m(r)əj (“beautiful, well, perfectly”) (STEDT, under PTB *mway). According to Schuessler (2007), cognate with Mizo mawi (“beautiful, lovely”), Jingpho moi (“perfectly, beautifully”) as well as Karbi me- (“be good”) and Jingpho cha mai (“good”); the former two items from *moy "beautiful" and the latter from *may "good, well", which were two roots reconstructed separately by Benedict (1972).
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Components
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Example sentences
多美啊！
How beautiful!
月光真美。
The moonlight is really beautiful.
月光真美。
The moonlight is beautiful.
城堡好美。
The castle is beautiful.
數大便是美。
The more, the better.
他想去美國。
He wants to go to America.
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