美人
びじん
Meanings
- Noun beautiful woman; (a) beauty; belle; good-looker
Kanji
Example sentences
- 君の姉さん、相変わらず美人だね。
Your sister's as beautiful as ever. - 弱気が美人を得たためしがない。
Faint heart never won fair lady. - 確かに彼女は絶世の美人です。
It is true; she is a rare beauty. - なるほど彼女はかわいいが美人とはいえない。
She is no doubt pretty, but she isn't beautiful. - たしかに彼女は美人ではない、しかし彼女はたいへん賢い。
She is not pretty, to be sure, but she is very clever.
Common phrases
Words containing 美人
- 美人画 (びじんが) portrait of a beautiful woman (esp. ukiyo-e)
- 八方美人 (はっぽうびじん) everybody's friend
- 美人局 (つつもたせ) badger game (scheme in which a man has his wife or lover seduce another man to blackmail him)
And 15 more.