美

美 is a Chinese hanzi, listed here under the keyword “beautiful”. It is built from 大 (big). It appears as a component in 7 other characters in this index.

Keyword: beautiful
Pinyin (Mandarin): měi
Script: Chinese hanzi
Also known as: beautiful, pretty, красиво, pretty
Same glyph as a Japanese kanji: 美 beauty

Decomposition

ids

𦍌
大 big

Characters that contain 美

媄 beautiful
嵄嵄
渼 ripples
羹 soup
躾 to discipline
鎂 magnesium (element 12
镁 magnesium (element 12

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