媚 — Chinese character
媚
mèi
attractive, charming; to charm, to flatter
- Pinyin
- mèi
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 女 眉
- Formation
- pictophonetic — woman; meaning component 女; sound component 眉
- Japanese
- 媚 as a kanji
Common words with 媚
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 妩媚 (嫵媚) | wǔ mèi | lovely; charming |
| 明媚 | míng mèi | bright and beautiful |
| 谄媚 (諂媚) | chǎn mèi | to flatter |
| 阳光明媚 (陽光明媚) | yáng guāng míng mèi | the sun shines brightly (idiom) |
| 媚外 | mèi wài | to fawn on foreigners; to pander to foreign powers |
| 娇媚 (嬌媚) | jiāo mèi | flirtatious; coquettish |
| 媚俗 | mèi sú | to cater to the public's taste; kitsch |
| 媚眼 | mèi yǎn | charming eyes; coquettish glances |
| 崇洋媚外 | chóng yáng mèi wài | to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom); blind worship of foreign goods and ideas |
| 献媚 (獻媚) | xiàn mèi | to ingratiate oneself with; to pander to |
| 妖媚 | yāo mèi | seductive; captivating; alluring |
| 柔媚 | róu mèi | gentle and lovely; charming |
English words written with 媚
媚 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.