měi beautiful

Made up of [ yáng sheep; goat radical 123, big; great; large; very radical 37]
Made with 9 strokes.
Represents a combination of 'large' and 'sheep' possibly aluding to a peaceful disposition

Related characters


Also uses yáng component: qún (group) xiān (fresh)
Also uses component: (husband) (do not) ; (strange) ; qìng (celebrate) ; shī (to lose) ; tài (too) ; tiān (sky) ; tóu (head) ; yāng (center) ; (barbarians)

Sounds same

měi (each)

Different tone

méi (have not) ; mèi (younger sister)

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Pronunciation

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stroke order for 美
Stroke order for character 美, kindly provided under Wikimedia creative commons license

Proverbs

十全十美 shí quán shí měi Perfection; faultless
黄粱美梦 huáng liáng měi mèng A fanciful day dream. The story is of a man who took a brief nap while his host was cooking a bowl of millet. He dreamed of becoming married to a beautiful wife and immensely rich and living to a great age. When he woke up the millet was cooked but he found he was still poor.

Phrases

měi guó America