• 151st most frequent character
  • Adds ~0.14% to your reading coverage
  • 2 dictionary entries
  • Appears in 301 words
  • Component in 2 characters

Decomposition

1Once
2Radical
3Graphical

Pinyin & Meaning

1. měi (Mei3)the Americas • abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1] • USA • abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2]
2. měi (mei3)beautiful • very satisfactory • good • to be pleased with oneself

Pronunciation Clues

There are no phonetic clues for this character.
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Appears In

also appears in:

Example Words

Common

完美 
精美 
美人 
美国 (美國)
美女 
美好 
美食 
美丽 (美麗)

Uncommon

优美 (優美)
北美 
十全十美 
唯美 
审美 (審美)
爱美 (愛美)
凄美 (淒美)
甜美 
美人计 (美人計)
美元 
美化 
美味 
美国人 (美國人)
美妙 
美容 
美德 
美感 
美景 
美满 (美滿)
美白 
美眉 
美瞳 
美术 (美術)
美貌 
美军 (美軍)
美金 
臭美 
赞美 (讚美)
鲜美 (鮮美)

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  • 832nd most frequent character
  • Adds <0.01% to your reading coverage
  • 2 dictionary entries
  • Appears in 89 words
  • Component in 1 character

Decomposition

1Once
2Radical
oneNo glyph available鹿deer
3Graphical

Pinyin & Meaning

1. (Li2)Korea
2. (li4)beautiful

Pronunciation Clues

1. Pronunciation clue for (li4)The component is pronounced as '' (li4). It has the exact same pronunciation as the character.
2. Pronunciation clue for (li4)The component is pronounced as '' (yi1). It has the same pinyin final.
3. Pronunciation clue for (li4)The component 鹿 is pronounced as '' (lu4). It has the same pinyin initial.
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Appears In

also appears in:

Example Words

Common

美丽 (美麗)
华丽 (華麗)

Uncommon

亮丽 (亮麗)
伊丽莎白 (伊麗莎白)
佳丽 (佳麗)
壮丽 (壯麗)
大丽花 (大麗花)
奥黛丽 (奧黛麗)
爱丽丝 (愛麗絲)
瑞丽 (瑞麗)
玛丽 (瑪麗)
秀丽 (秀麗)
绚丽 (絢麗)
艳丽 (艷麗)
蒙娜丽莎 (蒙娜麗莎)
邓丽君 (鄧麗君)
靓丽 (靚麗)
风和日丽 (風和日麗)
丽水 (麗水)
丽江 (麗江)

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Decomposition Levels:
Level 1 - Once: Only divided once. So only two components.
Level 2 - Radical: Radical Decomposition. The character gets decomposed into its lowest radical components. For the complete list visit the Radical wikipedia page.
Level 3 - Graphical: Graphical Decomposition. Shows all the strokes & lowest level of components that make up the character.
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