Chinese symbol for “artistic”
美观
měi guān
Traditional: 美觀
pleasing to the eye; beautiful; artistic
The closest CC-CEDICT match for artistic is 美观 (měi guān), defined as: pleasing to the eye; beautiful; artistic.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 美观.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 美元 | měi yuán | American dollar; US dollar |
| 美丽 (美麗) | měi lì | beautiful |
| 完美 | wán měi | perfect |
| 美女 | měi nǚ | beautiful woman |
| 美好 | měi hǎo | beautiful; fine |
| 美食 | měi shí | culinary delicacy; fine food |
| 观点 (觀點) | guān diǎn | point of view; viewpoint |
| 观众 (觀眾) | guān zhòng | spectators; audience; visitors (to an exhibition etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “artistic”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.