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美

Level II of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 203 / 2,608

Beauty

On’yomi
び
Kun’yomi
うつく
Radical
羊 Sheep (Kangxi 123)

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

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

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 beautifulN4
美 び beautyN1
美人 びじん beautiful person (woman)N3

美 is rank 203 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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