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美人

びじん

beautiful woman

Mnemonic

A beautiful person, and in practice the word is used of women. The same Jin じん whose hand you shook in 人, except that this one is a beauty. His mother: びじん.

Worth knowing

Said of women almost exclusively. 綺麗 きれい does the job as an adjective for anybody.

Built from

beautiful
羊 sheep + 大 big
person
A pictograph, a figure walking, seen from the side.

Words sharing these kanji

beautiful tasty person person from (nationality) human being, people (human) life the person in question character, person another person, stranger adult people friend

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