Entry
  1. I-adjective (keiyoushi)

    beautiful

    今度は彼はくだけた服装をした。美々しいスーツは場違いである事に気がついたからだ。
    This time he dressed down, having realized that the smart suit would be out of place.

Also written 美々しい【びびしい】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

beauty, beautiful

Kun
うつく.しい
On
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N3
Frequency
462 of 2500
Radical
sheep
WaniKani
Level 9

Built from

Used in names as

はるよしよしみ

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
2-3-6, 2-6-3, 4-9-4SKIP code
2o7.4The Kanji Dictionary
8043.1Four corner code
963deroo
7f8eUnicode hex code
1-40-94JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3658Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4660New Nelson (John Haig)
2264New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2817Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1451Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1955Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
548Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
587Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
289A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
923Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
268Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
28435Morohashi
376A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
401Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
405Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
308sakade
833Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
398henshall3
343Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
339crowley
673Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.19busy_people
1566Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
554Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
mei3Pinyin reading
miKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
9WaniKani level