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měi

beautiful

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approved by inralback19 · Nov 1, 2025, 10:37 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Jan 11, 2026, 07:43 PM

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Variant of 美. Pictograph of a person with ornamental headwear resembling sheep horns.

Components

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◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts an ornamental headwear.

人
人 Iconic component
rén, ren person

Depicts a person.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 人 than it was in ancient scripts.

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode