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"roman": "shuàigē",
"word": "帥哥"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "shuàigē",
"word": "帅哥"
}
],
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{
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"word": "橙紅美人蕉"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "橙红美人蕉"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "Shuìměirén",
"word": "睡美人"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měirénr",
"word": "美人兒"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měirénr",
"word": "美人儿"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "美人命薄"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měirénjiān",
"word": "美人尖"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "美人局"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "美人拳"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "美人樹"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "美人树"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "Měiréntuó",
"word": "美人沱"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měiréndēngr",
"word": "美人燈兒"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měiréndēngr",
"word": "美人灯儿"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měirénláo",
"word": "美人癆"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měirénláo",
"word": "美人痨"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "美人胎子"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "美人胚子"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měirénjiāo",
"word": "美人蕉"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měirénjì",
"word": "美人計"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měirénjì",
"word": "美人计"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "美人遲暮"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "美人迟暮"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "美人香草"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měirénjì",
"word": "美人髻"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měirényú",
"word": "美人魚"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měirényú",
"word": "美人鱼"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "yīngxióng nán guò měirén guān",
"word": "英雄難過美人關"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "yīngxióng nán guò měirén guān",
"word": "英雄难过美人关"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "蘇美人"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "苏美人"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "yúměirén",
"word": "虞美人"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "shéxiē měirén",
"word": "蛇蠍美人"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "shéxiē měirén",
"word": "蛇蝎美人"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "香草美人"
}
],
"descendants": [],
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"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "美人",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
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"categories": [
{
"_dis": "65 35",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "zh",
"name": "Appearance",
"orig": "zh:Appearance",
"parents": [
"Perception",
"Body",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"beautiful woman; beauty; lovely lady"
],
"id": "en-美人-zh-noun-pXSiugr8",
"links": [
[
"beautiful",
"beautiful"
],
[
"woman",
"woman"
],
[
"beauty",
"beauty"
],
[
"lovely",
"lovely"
],
[
"lady",
"lady"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant alt parameters",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant wikilinks",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
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{
"_dis": "11 89",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 71",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "zh",
"name": "Female people",
"orig": "zh:Female people",
"parents": [
"Female",
"People",
"Gender",
"Human",
"Biology",
"Psychology",
"Sociology",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Social sciences",
"Fundamental",
"Society"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 74",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "zh",
"name": "Monarchy",
"orig": "zh:Monarchy",
"parents": [
"Forms of government",
"High society",
"Government",
"Society",
"Politics",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
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"examples": [
{
"english": "King Zhuang of Chu threw a banquet for a bunch of his ministers. As nightfall approached, many of them became tipsy. At one point, the candles blew out, and someone took advantage of the darkness to grab at the queen’s garments. The queen caught hold of the cord which held the person's headpiece in place, yanked it off, then said to the king, \"After the candles blew out, someone grabbed at my clothes. I yanked off the cord which holds his headpiece in place. Bring over a candle so that I can see who is missing a cord for their headpiece.\"",
"ref": "楚莊王賜群臣酒，日暮酒酣，燈燭滅，乃有人引美人之衣者，美人援絕其冠纓，告王曰：「今者燭滅，有引妾衣者，妾援得其冠纓持之，趣火來上，視絕纓者。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
"text": "楚庄王赐群臣酒，日暮酒酣，灯烛灭，乃有人引美人之衣者，美人援绝其冠缨，告王曰：「今者烛灭，有引妾衣者，妾援得其冠缨持之，趣火来上，视绝缨者。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: c. 77 B.C.E., 劉向 (Liu Xiang), 《說苑》 (Garden of Stories), chapter 6\nChǔ Zhuāngwáng cì qúnchén jiǔ, rìmù jiǔhān, dēngzhú miè, nǎi yǒurén yǐn měirén zhī yī zhě, měirén yuán jué qí guānyīng, gào wáng yuē: “Jīn zhě zhú miè, yǒu yǐn qiè yī zhě, qiè yuán dé qí guānyīng chí zhī, qù huǒ lái shàng, shì juéyīng zhě.” [Pinyin]",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"royal consort"
],
"id": "en-美人-zh-noun-pcYZvNXm",
"links": [
[
"royal",
"royal"
],
[
"consort",
"consort"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) royal consort"
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "měirén"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄇㄟˇ ㄖㄣˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "mei⁵ jan⁴"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Phak-fa-su",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "mî-ngìn"
},
{
"zh-pron": "bí-lîn"
},
{
"zh-pron": "bí-jîn"
},
{
"zh-pron": "⁶me-gnin; ⁶me-zen"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "měirén"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄇㄟˇ ㄖㄣˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "měirén"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "mei³-jên²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "měi-rén"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "meeiren"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "мэйжэнь"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "mɛjžɛnʹ"
},
{
"ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "měirénr"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄇㄟˇ ㄖㄣˊㄦ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "měirénr"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh-pron": "mei³-jên²-ʼrh"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "měi-rénr"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "meeirel"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "мэйжэньр"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "mɛjžɛnʹr"
},
{
"ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐəɻ³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "méih yàhn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "mei⁵ jan⁴"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "méi⁵ yen⁴"
},
{
"ipa": "/mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Meinong",
"Miaoli",
"Phak-fa-su",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "mî-ngìn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Hakka-Romanization-System",
"Meinong",
"Miaoli",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "mi´ nginˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hagfa-Pinyim",
"Hakka",
"Meinong",
"Miaoli",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "mi¹ ngin²"
},
{
"ipa": "/mi²⁴ ŋin¹¹/",
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Meinong",
"Miaoli",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Sixian"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "bí-lîn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "bí-lîn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh-pron": "byliin"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Taipei",
"Xiamen"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Quanzhou"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "bí-jîn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "bí-jîn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh-pron": "byjiin"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zin¹³/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Zhangzhou"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zin²³/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Kaohsiung"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "⁶me-gnin; ⁶me-zen"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "me^去 nyin; me^去 zen"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "³me-nyin; ³me-zen"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "/me²² n̠ʲin⁴⁴/"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "/me²² zən⁴⁴/"
},
{
"tags": [
"Middle-Chinese"
],
"zh-pron": "mijX nyin"
},
{
"tags": [
"Baxter-Sagart",
"Old-Chinese"
],
"zh-pron": "/*[m]rəjʔ ni[ŋ]/"
},
{
"tags": [
"Old-Chinese",
"Zhengzhang"
],
"zh-pron": "/*mriʔ njin/"
},
{
"ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐəɻ³⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mi²⁴ ŋin¹¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zin¹³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zin²³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/me²² n̠ʲin⁴⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/me²² zən⁴⁴/"
},
{
"other": "[m]"
},
{
"other": "[ŋ]"
},
{
"other": "/*mriʔ njin/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "jiārén",
"word": "佳人"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "jiālì",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "佳麗"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "jiālì",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "佳丽"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "chūshuǐfúróng",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "出水芙蓉"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "hù",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "嫭"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "jiāo",
"word": "嬌"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "jiāo",
"word": "娇"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "hóngyán",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "紅顏"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "hóngyán",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "红颜"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "měinǚ",
"word": "美女"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "xíngyǔ",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "行雨"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"tags": [
"Cantonese"
],
"word": "靚女"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"tags": [
"Cantonese"
],
"word": "靓女"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "lìrén",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "麗人"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "lìrén",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "丽人"
}
],
"word": "美人"
}
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"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "a beauty pageant, a beauty contest",
"roman": "bijin kontesuto",
"ruby": [
[
"美人",
"びじん"
]
],
"word": "美人コンテスト"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "bijinga",
"word": "美人画: a genre of picture"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "depicting feminine beauty"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "a picture of this genre"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "a large and deep umbrella that was fashionable in the late Meiji period",
"roman": "bijingasa",
"ruby": [
[
"美人傘",
"びじんがさ"
]
],
"word": "美人傘"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "princess plantain",
"roman": "hime bashō",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"word": "美人蕉: the Chinese-derived alternate for 姫芭蕉"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "a variety of plantain of family Musaceae"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "Papaver rhoeas, a field poppy or corn poppy",
"roman": "bijinsō",
"ruby": [
[
"美人草",
"びじんそう"
]
],
"word": "美人草: alternate name for 雛罌粟"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "ltc",
"3": "-",
"sort": "ひじん'"
},
"expansion": "Middle Chinese",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "美人",
"lit": "beautiful (especially feminine) + person"
},
"expansion": "美人 (MC mijX nyin, literally “beautiful (especially feminine) + person”)",
"name": "ltc-l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nan",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Min Nan",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Chinese 美人 (MC mijX nyin, literally “beautiful (especially feminine) + person”). Compare modern Min Nan reading bí-jîn.\nThe kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "美人",
"ruby": [
[
"美",
"び"
],
[
"人",
"じん"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "bijin",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "びじん"
},
"expansion": "美(び)人(じん) • (bijin)",
"name": "ja-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "even a beautiful person only has one skin",
"roman": "bijin to iu mo kawa hitoe",
"ruby": [
[
"美人",
"びじん"
],
[
"皮一重",
"かわひとえ"
]
],
"word": "美人というも皮一重: → beauty is only skin deep"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "a beautiful person doesn't have an age",
"roman": "bijin ni toshi nashi",
"ruby": [
[
"美人",
"びじん"
],
[
"年",
"とし"
]
],
"word": "美人に年なし: → a beautiful person often looks young no matter their age"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "the end of [being] a beautiful person is turning into a monkey",
"roman": "bijin no owari wa saru ni naru",
"ruby": [
[
"美人",
"びじん"
],
[
"終",
"お"
],
[
"猿",
"さる"
]
],
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{
"word": "美人遲暮"
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{
"word": "美人迟暮"
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{
"word": "美人香草"
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"english": "King Zhuang of Chu threw a banquet for a bunch of his ministers. As nightfall approached, many of them became tipsy. At one point, the candles blew out, and someone took advantage of the darkness to grab at the queen’s garments. The queen caught hold of the cord which held the person's headpiece in place, yanked it off, then said to the king, \"After the candles blew out, someone grabbed at my clothes. I yanked off the cord which holds his headpiece in place. Bring over a candle so that I can see who is missing a cord for their headpiece.\"",
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"text": "楚庄王赐群臣酒，日暮酒酣，灯烛灭，乃有人引美人之衣者，美人援绝其冠缨，告王曰：「今者烛灭，有引妾衣者，妾援得其冠缨持之，趣火来上，视绝缨者。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: c. 77 B.C.E., 劉向 (Liu Xiang), 《說苑》 (Garden of Stories), chapter 6\nChǔ Zhuāngwáng cì qúnchén jiǔ, rìmù jiǔhān, dēngzhú miè, nǎi yǒurén yǐn měirén zhī yī zhě, měirén yuán jué qí guānyīng, gào wáng yuē: “Jīn zhě zhú miè, yǒu yǐn qiè yī zhě, qiè yuán dé qí guānyīng chí zhī, qù huǒ lái shàng, shì juéyīng zhě.” [Pinyin]",
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},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "meeiren"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "мэйжэнь"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "mɛjžɛnʹ"
},
{
"ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "měirénr"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄇㄟˇ ㄖㄣˊㄦ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "měirénr"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh-pron": "mei³-jên²-ʼrh"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "měi-rénr"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "meeirel"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "мэйжэньр"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "mɛjžɛnʹr"
},
{
"ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐəɻ³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "méih yàhn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "mei⁵ jan⁴"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "méi⁵ yen⁴"
},
{
"ipa": "/mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Meinong",
"Miaoli",
"Phak-fa-su",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "mî-ngìn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Hakka-Romanization-System",
"Meinong",
"Miaoli",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "mi´ nginˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hagfa-Pinyim",
"Hakka",
"Meinong",
"Miaoli",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "mi¹ ngin²"
},
{
"ipa": "/mi²⁴ ŋin¹¹/",
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Meinong",
"Miaoli",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Sixian"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "bí-lîn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "bí-lîn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh-pron": "byliin"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Taipei",
"Xiamen"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Quanzhou"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "bí-jîn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "bí-jîn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh-pron": "byjiin"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zin¹³/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Zhangzhou"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zin²³/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Kaohsiung"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "⁶me-gnin; ⁶me-zen"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "me^去 nyin; me^去 zen"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "³me-nyin; ³me-zen"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "/me²² n̠ʲin⁴⁴/"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "/me²² zən⁴⁴/"
},
{
"tags": [
"Middle-Chinese"
],
"zh-pron": "mijX nyin"
},
{
"tags": [
"Baxter-Sagart",
"Old-Chinese"
],
"zh-pron": "/*[m]rəjʔ ni[ŋ]/"
},
{
"tags": [
"Old-Chinese",
"Zhengzhang"
],
"zh-pron": "/*mriʔ njin/"
},
{
"ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐəɻ³⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mi²⁴ ŋin¹¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zin¹³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zin²³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/me²² n̠ʲin⁴⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/me²² zən⁴⁴/"
},
{
"other": "[m]"
},
{
"other": "[ŋ]"
},
{
"other": "/*mriʔ njin/"
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},
{
"roman": "jiālì",
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"literary"
],
"word": "佳麗"
},
{
"roman": "jiālì",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "佳丽"
},
{
"roman": "chūshuǐfúróng",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "出水芙蓉"
},
{
"roman": "hù",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "嫭"
},
{
"roman": "jiāo",
"word": "嬌"
},
{
"roman": "jiāo",
"word": "娇"
},
{
"roman": "hóngyán",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "紅顏"
},
{
"roman": "hóngyán",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "红颜"
},
{
"roman": "měinǚ",
"word": "美女"
},
{
"roman": "xíngyǔ",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "行雨"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese"
],
"word": "靚女"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese"
],
"word": "靓女"
},
{
"roman": "lìrén",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "麗人"
},
{
"roman": "lìrén",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "丽人"
}
],
"word": "美人"
}
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{
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[
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{
"roman": "bijin wa iwanedo kakure nashi",
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{
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{
"word": "it's obvious"
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"美人",
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"ideal",
"ideal"
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[
"ruler",
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[
"sage",
"sage"
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[
"love",
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[
"respect",
"respect"
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"fifth",
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"imperial",
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"ipa": "[bʲiʑĩɴ]"
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[
"美女",
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"佳人",
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{
"roman": "bidanshi",
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{
"roman": "binan",
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],
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"Meiji period"
],
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},
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"1": "ja",
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],
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[
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},
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},
{
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"romanization"
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},
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"word": "美人"
}
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