"美色" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Chinese]

IPA: /meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ sɤ⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /mei̯¹³ sɪk̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɪk̚³²/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ siɪk̚⁵/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɪk̚³²/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɪk̚³²/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ siɪk̚³²/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ sɤ⁵¹/, /mei̯¹³ sɪk̚⁵/, /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɪk̚³²/, /bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ siɪk̚⁵/, /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɪk̚³²/, /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɪk̚³²/, /bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ siɪk̚³²/ Chinese transliterations: měisè [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄇㄟˇ ㄙㄜˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], mei⁵ sik¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], bí-sek, měisè [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], měisè [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], mei³-sê⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], měi-sè [Mandarin, Yale], meeiseh [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], мэйсэ [Mandarin, Palladius], mɛjsɛ [Mandarin, Palladius], méih sīk [Cantonese, Yale], mei⁵ sik⁷ [Cantonese, Pinyin], méi⁵ xig¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], bí-sek [Hokkien, POJ], bí-sik [Hokkien, Tai-lo], byseg [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 美色
  1. good looks (usually of a woman); charms Categories (topical): Appearance
    Sense id: en-美色-zh-noun-IHIPRFqo Disambiguation of Appearance: 50 50 Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. good looks (usually of a woman); charms
    beautiful woman
    Categories (topical): Appearance
    Sense id: en-美色-zh-noun-tkgE05hw Disambiguation of Appearance: 50 50 Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): Female
Disambiguation of Female: 0 0

Noun [Japanese]

IPA: [bʲiɕo̞kɯ̟ᵝ] Forms: 美色 [canonical] (ruby: (), (しょく)), bishoku [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Chinese compound 美色 (mˠiɪ^X ʃɨk̚, literally “beauty + color”). Compare modern Cantonese reading mei⁵ sik¹. The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing. Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-|sort=ひしょく'}} Middle Chinese, {{cog|yue|-}} Cantonese Head templates: {{ja-noun|びしょく|}} 美(び)色(しょく) • (bishoku)
  1. beautiful color
    Sense id: en-美色-ja-noun-ZJqgyjA3
  2. beauty (of personal appearance)
    Sense id: en-美色-ja-noun-3fi2hcsQ Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 32 68 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 6 94 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 6 94 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 6 94 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 6 94

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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