- 麗しい — beautiful; lovely; graceful
- 麗らか — bright and clear; serene
- 華麗 — gorgeous; magnificent
- 流麗 — flowing and elegant
- 端麗 — handsome; fair; neat and pretty
- 壮麗 — grand and splendid
麗 contains the radical 鹿(しか) “deer,” a creature long associated with elegance and grace. The character’s phonetic portion supplies the reading レイ, while the deer element adds the sense of refined beauty—hence “lovely,” “splendid,” and “graceful.”