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美
Meanings
Beauty, Beautiful
Radicals
羊
Decomposition
⿱羊大
Etymology
Ideographic: A person 大 wearing an elegant crown 羊
Writing Practice
Stroke
0 / 9
Stroke Order
1
dot
right-to-left
2
diagonal
right-to-left
3
horizontal
bottom-right-to-top-left
4
vertical
right-to-left
5
horizontal
bottom-right-to-top-left
6
horizontal
bottom-to-top
7
horizontal
bottom-to-top
8
diagonal
bottom-right-to-top-left
9
diagonal
bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi
(Chinese reading)
ミ
mi
ビ
bi
Kun'yomi
(Japanese reading)
うつく
utsuku