美
měi HSK3

beautiful

美 měi
beautiful adjectivenoun
beautiful; pretty; pleasing to the eye

最美的是看到一个人在微笑。

zuì měi de shì kàn dào yī​ge rén zài wēi​xiào.

The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling.

她不完美，但她很美。

tā bù wán​měi, dàn tā hěn měi.

She’s not perfect, but she is beautiful.

USA proper nounnoun
(bound form) abbreviation for the United States of America 美国 měi​guó
good adjectivenoun
good; satisfactory; excellent; virtuous
Americas proper nounnoun
(bound form) abbreviation for the Americas 美洲 měi​zhōu
to praise verbnoun
to commend; to extol
to beautify nounverb
to make beautiful; to embellish
pleased
to be pleased with oneself; happy; self-satisfied
surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
151st most common 1392.5 per million
Movie subtitles
180th most common 972.7 per million appears in 93% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
214.6 per million appears in 44% of films
Written text
434.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+7F8E

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)