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: 鹿(しか)

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.”

Combine “flower; splendor” with “beautiful,” and you instantly feel 華麗かれい — gorgeously beautiful. Instinct hook: flower-splendor (華) + refined beauty (麗) → dazzling elegance.

Forms

流麗りゅうれい — flowing and elegant (style, lines, prose)

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