美人 měirén
měirén
noun
beauty; belle
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '美人')
Contained in
- 美人计(美人計) honey trap; sexual entrapment; CL:條|条
- 美人蕉 canna or Indian shot (genus Canna)
- 美人尖 widow's peak (in China, regarded as attractive in women)
- 睡美人 Sleeping Beauty
- 英雄难过美人关(英雄難過美人關) even heroes have a weakness for the charms of a beautiful woman
- 美人坯子 a beauty in the bud
- 美人腿 edible stem of Manchurian wild rice 菰, aka water bamboo
- 美人鱼(美人魚) mermaid
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷二百四十三 列傳第二 后妃下 Volume 243 Biographies 2: Empresses and Consorts 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 12
- 卷十下 皇后紀 Volume 10b: Annals of Empresses 2 Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 11
- 卷九十七下 外戚傳 Volume 97a: The Empresses and Imperial Affines 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 11
- 卷十四 列傳第四 宋宗室及諸王下 Volume 14 Biographies 4: Members of the Song Imperial Family 2 History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 10
- 卷二百四十二 列傳第一 后妃上 Volume 242 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 10
- 卷十一 列傳第一 后妃上 Volume 11 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 9
- 卷四十一 列傳第一 后妃 Volume 41 Biographies 1: Emperesses and Consorts Book of Song 宋書 — count: 9
- 卷二十九 Scroll 29 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 8
- 卷二十八 韓三 Chapter 28: Han III Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 7
- 卷三十三 Scroll 33 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
Collocations
- 王美人 (王美人) 魏王遺荊王美人 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 內儲說下六微第三十一 Chapter 31: A Collection of Sayings II — count: 11
- 美人生 (美人生) 及趙美人生男 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 淮南鴻烈解敘 漢涿郡高誘撰 Explanation of Sections of Huainaizi, Compiled by Gao You of Zhuo Province in the Han — count: 6
- 美人子 (美人子) 取美人子名之 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《呂太后本紀》Annals of Empress Dowager Lü — count: 6
- 许美人 (許美人) 聞後宮許美人 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七中之下 五行志 Volume 27c: Treatise on the Five Elements 3 — count: 5
- 后宫美人 (後宮美人) 取後宮美人子名之以為太子 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷三 高后紀 Volume 3: Annals of Empress Lü Zhi — count: 4
- 美人及 (美人及) 傳以示美人及左右 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《廉頗藺相如列傳》 Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru — count: 4
- 沈美人 (沈美人) 沈美人者 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷四十一 列傳第一 后妃 Volume 41 Biographies 1: Emperesses and Consorts — count: 3
- 赵美人 (趙美人) 趙美人弟兼因辟陽侯審食其言之呂后 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 淮南鴻烈解敘 漢涿郡高誘撰 Explanation of Sections of Huainaizi, Compiled by Gao You of Zhuo Province in the Han — count: 3
- 虞美人 (虞美人) 拜沖帝母虞美人為憲園貴人 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八 孝靈帝紀 Volume 8: Annals of Emperor Xiaoling — count: 3
- 美人视 (美人視) 美人視二千石 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十七上 外戚傳 Volume 97a: The Empresses and Imperial Affines 1 — count: 3