美
Meaning
- beautiful
- very satisfactory; good
- to beautify
Example sentence
月光真美。
The moonlight is beautiful.
The character 美
美 is 羊, a sheep, over 大, and the usual account is that a fat sheep was a fine thing. Beautiful — 美丽, 美好, 美食 — and it also stands in for America, so 美元 and 美女 use the character for two unrelated jobs.