Chinese word dictionary

美甲

měi jiǎ · manicure and-or pedicure

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Word information

Simplified美甲

Traditional美甲

Pinyinměi jiǎ

Part of speechDictionary

HSK 3.0Not listed

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

美měi

beautiful, pretty; pleasing

甲jiǎ

armor, shell; fingernails; 1st heavenly stem

How to learn 美甲

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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美měi

(bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1]); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2]); beautiful; very satisfactory; good; to beautify; to be pleased with oneself

beautiful; fine

beautiful scenery

beautiful

culinary delicacy; fine food; gourmet food

甲jiǎ

first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°