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美丽

měi lì 3–4

beautiful

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
美 · 丽
Syllables
2
měi lì
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,262

Part of speech: a,an

Character by character

  • 美měi9 strokesHSK 3beautiful, pretty; pleasing
  • 丽lì8 strokesHSK 3 traditional 麗beautiful, magnificent, elegant

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 生活是美丽的。

    Shēng huó shì měi lì de

    Life is beautiful.

  • 文学是美丽的。

    Wén xué shì měi lì de

    Literature is beautiful.

  • 我的手机是美丽的

    Wǒ de shǒu jī shì měi lì de

    My phone is beautiful.

  • 你是多么的美丽！

    Nǐ shì duō me de měi lì

    You're so beautiful!

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 美丽. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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