Read Edit View history Discussion 美 měi HSK3 beautiful Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Pictograph of a person with ornamental headwear resembling sheep horns. Pinyin Separate values with commas měi × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Depicts ornamental headwear resembling sheep horns. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 美 Simp strokes 美 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Used here as a pictograph of a person. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 美 Simp strokes 美 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 美 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 353, 789 ], [ 418, 749 ], [ 443, 713 ] ], [ [ 604, 838 ], [ 623, 819 ], [ 632, 800 ], [ 529, 685 ] ], [ [ 282, 604 ], [ 343, 596 ], [ 682, 658 ], [ 713, 656 ] ], [ [ 349, 487 ], [ 375, 482 ], [ 449, 486 ], [ 593, 520 ], [ 650, 521 ] ], [ [ 468, 594 ], [ 497, 569 ], [ 501, 550 ], [ 497, 429 ], [ 480, 406 ] ], [ [ 208, 364 ], [ 260, 353 ], [ 460, 376 ], [ 706, 415 ], [ 746, 416 ], [ 791, 407 ] ], [ [ 261, 229 ], [ 281, 223 ], [ 331, 224 ], [ 524, 255 ], [ 678, 272 ], [ 754, 253 ] ], [ [ 436, 353 ], [ 466, 332 ], [ 481, 310 ], [ 466, 204 ], [ 432, 121 ], [ 401, 77 ], [ 356, 34 ], [ 266, -12 ], [ 201, -30 ] ], [ [ 505, 222 ], [ 510, 208 ], [ 610, 112 ], [ 736, 7 ], [ 769, -3 ], [ 916, -16 ] ] ], "strokes": [ "M 375 746 Q 394 728 415 707 Q 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