美其名曰 měiqímíngyuē to call by the glorified name of Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 美 měi verbnoun to praise to commend; to extol其 qí pronoun [third-person possessive] his; her; its; their; refers back to a person or thing mentioned previously名 míng noun name name or title of a person or thing; a person's given name曰 yuē to be called (literary) to be called; to be named; to be known as