Jisho

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17 strokes
Radical:
wine, alcohol
Parts:
ugly, unclean, shame, bad looking
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2074 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 醜 【シュウ】 ugliness, shame, disgrace
  • 醜女 【シュウジョ】 homely woman, plain-looking woman, female demon
  • 老醜 【ロウシュウ】 ugliness of old age
  • 美醜 【ビシュウ】 beauty or ugliness, personal appearance, looks

Kun reading compounds

  • 醜い 【みにくい】 ugly, unattractive, bad-looking, unsightly, unseemly, disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable
  • みにくいアヒルの子 【みにくいあひるのこ】 ugly duckling
  • 醜 【しこ】 ugly, repulsive, detestable, contemptible, unworthy, insignificant, humble, strong and frightening thing
  • 醜女 【しゅうじょ】 homely woman, plain-looking woman, female demon

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chou3
Korean:
chu

Spanish

  • feo
  • mal aspecto
  • innoble
  • vergüenza

Portuguese

  • sujo
  • feio
  • vergonha
  • má aparência

French

  • laid
  • malpropre
  • hideux
  • honteux
1359 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1969 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4798 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1703 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1839 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1527 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1628 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1755 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1798 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2058 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1082 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1469 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2039 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39969 Morohashi
1629 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6189 New Nelson (John Haig)
2020 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2176 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1890 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3257 2001 Kanji
7e10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-10 SKIP code
1661.3 Four corner code
1-29-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
919c Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
sheep 羊 (⺶)
Parts:
beauty, beautiful
Kun:
うつく.しい
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
462 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 美 【ビ】 beauty
  • 美意識 【ビイシキ】 sense of beauty, aesthetic sense
  • 華美 【カビ】 splendor, splendour, gorgeousness, pomp, magnificence, showiness, gaudiness, extravagance, luxury
  • 造形美 【ゾウケイビ】 beauty of form (oft. used of nature), beauty of a sculpted shape
  • 御 【ミ】 august, beautiful
  • 見事 【ミゴト】 splendid, magnificent, excellent, fine, superb, beautiful, admirable, utter (esp. defeat), total, complete, something worth seeing, sight, spectacle
  • 水野亜美 【ミズノアミ】 Ami Mizuno (Sailor Moon character)
  • 伊邪那美 【イザナミ】 Izanami (Shinto goddess)

Kun reading compounds

  • 美しい 【うつくしい】 beautiful, pretty, lovely, sweet, pure (heart, friendship, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
はる、 よし、 よしみ、 り
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mei3
Korean:
mi

Spanish

  • belleza
  • bello

Portuguese

  • beleza
  • bela

French

  • beauté
  • beau, belle
308 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
398 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
376 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
289 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3658 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
268 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
833 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
923 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.19 Japanese for Busy People
401 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
405 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
673 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1566 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2817 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1451 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1955 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
554 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
28435 Morohashi
2264 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4660 New Nelson (John Haig)
548 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
587 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
339 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
343 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
963 2001 Kanji
2o7.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
4-9-4 SKIP code
2-6-3 SKIP code
8043.1 Four corner code
1-40-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7f8e Unicode hex code