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审美

shěnměi

to appreciate beauty

A person admires a landscape painting beside a vase
Memory picture

Characters in this word

审 shěn

Strokes
8
Radical
宀 — roof
Made of
宀 roof 申 to report
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

美 měi

Strokes
9
Radical
羊 — sheep, goat
Made of
羊 sheep, goat 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 艺术教育能帮助学生提高审美能力。 Yìshù jiàoyù néng bāngzhù xuéshēng tígāo shěnměi nénglì. Arts education can help students improve their aesthetic appreciation.
  • 每个人的审美不一样,没有绝对的好坏。 Měi ge rén de shěnměi bù yīyàng, méiyǒu juéduì de hǎohuài. Everyone's sense of beauty is different, and nothing is absolutely good or bad.
  • 孩子从小多看画,审美自然会提高。 Háizi cóngxiǎo duō kàn huà, shěnměi zìrán huì tígāo. If children look at lots of paintings from a young age, their sense of beauty will naturally improve.

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