美事

Chinese

		beautiful; beauty; America	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
trad. (美事)		美	事
simp. ^#(美事)		美	事

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): měishì

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˇ ㄕˋ
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bí-sū

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: měishì
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˇ ㄕˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: měishìh
  - Wade–Giles: mei³-shih⁴
  - Yale: měi-shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeishyh
  - Palladius: мэйши (mɛjši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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    每事
    美事
    美式
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí-sū
  - Tâi-lô: bí-sū
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bysu
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su²²/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ su⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su²²/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su³³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su³³/

Noun

美事

good, beautiful or fine thing
laudable act; worthy deed

Japanese

Kanji in this term
美	事
み Grade: 3 (ateji)	こと > ごと Grade: 3
goon	kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 美事 – see the following entry.

【見事みごと】

[adjective] [from 1477] (by extension from the spectacle sense) spectacular, splendid, magnificent, wonderful

[adjective] [from 1563] skillful, excellent, ingenious, clever

[adjective] [from 1798] total, complete

[adverb] [from 1563] excellently, skillfully, spectacularly

[noun] [from 1309] something that should be looked at, something worthy of looking at, a spectacle, a sight, a magnificent deed

(This term, 美事, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

“^△美事”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026