The kanji 美: meaning, readings and stroke order
美
- Meaning
- beautiful
- On reading
- ビ bi
- Kun reading
- うつく(しい) utsukushii
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 羊 sheep
- Level
- Level 3 · grade 3
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- đẹp (mỹ)
- Japanese
- うつくしい。
- Korean
- 아름답다 (미)
- Chinese
- 美丽
Readings, words and example sentences
ビ bi · on reading
美化
making a place clean and pretty
町の 美化に 力を 入れます。
We work hard to keep our town clean and pretty.
うつく(しい) utsukushii · kun reading
美しい
beautiful
山の 上から 美しい 海が 見えます。
From the top of the mountain, you can see the beautiful sea.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.