美

Descendants

 * み

Glyph origin
– a person wearing a headdress (now written ) of feathers or ram's horn.

The modern form could be considered an.

Etymology
From (STEDT).

According to, cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 as well as 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬; the former two items from *moy "beautiful" and the latter from *may "good, well", which were two roots reconstructed separately by.

Definitions

 * 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) . Mei
 * 1) to beautify; to prettify
 * 2) to praise; to commend
 * 3)  to be pleased with oneself
 * 4) beautiful things; beauty
 * 5) . Mei
 * 1) beautiful things; beauty
 * 2) . Mei
 * 1) . Mei
 * 1) . Mei
 * 1) . Mei
 * 1) . Mei
 * 1) . Mei
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Kanji

 * 1) beauty; beautiful

Adjective

 * 1) beautiful

Noun

 * 1) beauty

Affix

 * 1) beauty; beautiful

Etymology
From.

Usage notes
A common convention in news headlines, this is almost always written solely in the Hanja form, even in contemporary Korean text otherwise devoid of any Hanja.