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měi

beautiful

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approved by Prismcool · Sep 4, 2023, 06:41 AM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Sep 4, 2023, 06:41 AM

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Variant of 美. Pictograph of a person with ornamental headwear.

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component

Depicts an ornamental headdress.

人
人 Iconic component

Depicts a person. Modern form looks like unrelated 几.

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