麗

音読おんよみ: レイ

訓読くんよみ: うるわしい・うららか

画数かくすう: 19

部首ぶしゅ: しか(鹿)

Meaning

Beautiful / Lovely / Graceful / Splendid

  • うるわしい — beautiful; lovely; graceful
  • うららか — bright and clear; serene
  • 華麗かれい — gorgeous; magnificent
  • 流麗りゅうれい — flowing and elegant
  • 端麗たんれい — handsome; fair; neat and pretty
  • 壮麗そうれい — 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.”

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