美
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beautiful; very satisfactory; good; to beautify; to be pleased with oneself
Formation & memory
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Words with 美
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大美人 | gorgeous-looking woman | |
| 美国国会 | US Congress | |
| 美国人 | American; American person; American people; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 拉美西斯 | Rameses (name of pharaoh) | |
| 天公不作美 | Heaven is not cooperating (idiom); the weather is not favorable for the planned activity | |
| 国美电器 | GOME Electrical Appliances (founded in Beijing, 1987) | |
| 美人 | beautiful woman; belle | |
| 国美 | GOME, electronics chain founded in Beijing in 1987 | |
| 美国 | United States; USA; US | |
| 成人之美 | (idiom) beauty of helping others succeed; act of helping sb fulfill their wish | |
| 中美 | China-US | |
| 中美 | Central America | |
| 美中 | US-China | |
| 美学 | aesthetics | |
| 美心 | Maxine (name) | |
| 天公作美 | Heaven is cooperating (idiom); the weather is favorable for the planned activity (a variat… | |
| 美国交会 | abbr. for 美國證券交易委員會|美国证券交易委员会, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) | |
| 拉美 | Latin America; abbr. for 拉丁美洲 | |
| 美白 | to whiten (the skin or teeth) | |
| 美化 | to make more beautiful; to decorate; embellishment |
Sound family
These characters use 美 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 美 sound part | beautiful, pretty; pleasing | |
| 镁 | magnesium |