IDENTITY
美měibeautiful; America
HSK 2Top 250
CORE MEANING
beautiful; America
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.beautifulHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 羊sheep radical (yáng)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱𦍌大
- sheep
- big
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
美丽měilìbeautiful
美国MěiguóAmerica
美女měinǚbeautiful woman
Graded examples
公园的风景很美。Gōngyuán de fēngjǐng hěn měi.HSK3
The park scenery is beautiful.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A big (大) sheep (羊) — the prized animal, the beautiful one. (Old: sheep = beauty.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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