美

美 (radical 123, 羊+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿土大 (TGK), four-corner 8043₁, composition ⿱𦍌大)

• み

• KangXi: page 951, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28435
• Dae Jaweon: page 1393, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3126, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7F8E

Pictogram (象形) : 羊 (“goat, sheep or feathers”) + 大 (“person”) – a person with a headdress of feathers or ram's horn; sometimes considered as an ideogrammic compound (會意).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mway (“beautiful, well, perfectly”) (STEDT).

According to Schuessler (2007), cognate with Mizo mawi (“beautiful, lovely”), Jingpho moi  (“perfectly, beautifully”) as well as Karbi me- (“be good”) and Jingpho t͡ʃə³³-mai³³ (“good”); the former two items from *moy "beautiful" and the latter from *may "good, well", which were two roots reconstructed separately by Benedict (1972).

美

1. beautiful; pretty; attractive; good-looking

   美人  ―  měirén  ―  beautiful woman

2. delicious; tasty; flavoursome

   美食  ―  měishí  ―  culinary delicacy

3. good; fine; satisfactory; happy
4. to beautify; to prettify

   美容  ―  měiróng  ―  to improve one's appearance

5. to praise; to commend
6. (dialectal) to be pleased with oneself

   他不就是得了個一百分兒嗎？看把他美得！ [dialectal Mandarin, trad.]
   他不就是得了个一百分儿吗？看把他美得！ [dialectal Mandarin, simp.]

   Tā bù jiù shi dé le ge yī bǎi fēnr ma? Kàn bǎ tā měi de! [Pinyin]

   (please add an English translation of this example)

7. beautiful things; beauty
8. Short for 美洲 (Měizhōu, “America (continent)”).
9. Short for 美國／美国 (Měiguó, “United States of America”).
10. A surname​. Mei

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. beauty; beautiful

• Go-on: み (mi)
• Kan-on: び (bi, Jōyō)
• Kun: うつくしい (utsukushii, 美しい, Jōyō); ほめる (homeru, 美める); よい (yoi, 美い)

美 (hiragana び, rōmaji bi)

1. beauty; beautiful

美 (hiragana び, rōmaji bi)

1. beauty

   自 (し)然 (ぜん)の美 (び)

   shizen no bi

   beauty of nature; natural beauty

美 (hiragana み, rōmaji mi)

1. beauty; beautiful

美 (hiragana み, rōmaji -mi)

1. suffix used by female given names, such as 奈美(なみ, Nami), 恵美(えみ, Emi; めぐみ, Megumi), 宏美(ひろみ, Hiromi)
2. (rare) suffix used by male given names

美 • (mi) (hangeul 미, McCune–Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

1. the USA, the Americas (in compounds, in news media)
2. beautiful

美: Hán Việt readings: mỹ[1][2], mĩ[3]
美: Nôm readings: mẻ[2][3][4], mẹ[1][2], mỹ[1][2], mẽ[1][4], mỉa[1][4], mở[1], mỉ[3], mĩ[4]

1. Hán tự form of mĩ/mỹ (“beautiful; pretty; good”).