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美
Mandarin · pinyin měi#
Meanings · měi
- beautiful
- very satisfactory; good
- to beautify
- to be pleased with oneself
Mandarin · pinyin Měi#
Meanings · Měi
- (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲 Měi zhōu)
- (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美國 Měi guó)
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- 美
- měi · beautiful, pretty; pleasing
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3 · mei3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
mei5
Cantonese word readings for 美. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- beautiful; pretty; attractive; good-looking
- delicious; tasty; flavoursome
- good; fine; satisfactory; happy
- to beautify; to prettify
- to praise; to commend
- (colloquial) to be pleased with oneself
- beautiful things; beauty
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 美洲 (Měizhōu): America (a supercontinent)
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 美國／美国 (Měiguó): America, United States (a country in North America)
- a surname, Mei
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