# 美 — Beauty

Frequency rank 203 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 規 (Standard), less common than 直 (Straight).

- On’yomi: び
- Kun’yomi: うつく
- Radical: 羊 Sheep (Kangxi 123)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

The wool-packed Sheep plants itself Big in the barn doorway, horns out to both jambs, and nobody in the aisle can get past it or look away from it.

In words:

- 美しい うつくしい — beautiful
- 美 び — beauty
- 美人 びじん — beautiful person (woman)

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