Appendix:Gikun Usage in Meiji Version of Japanese Bible/艶美

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
艶 美
Grade: S Grade: 3
irregular
Alternative spelling
艷美 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Gikun word derived by applying Chinese-derived spelling 艶美 (“sensual beauty”), a term which decomposes into 艶 (“sensual”) + 美 (“beauty”), to native Japanese word うるわしき (uruwashiki, “beauty”) thus denoting sensual beauty.

Noun

艶美 (うるわしき)／艷美 (うるはしき)[1] (uruwashiki, Historical hiragana: うるはしき, classical form of うるわ.しい, uruwa.shii)　→　麗 (うるわ)しい (uruwa.shii)

  1. (sensual) beauty

Quotations

  1. ^ OT, page 878:
    その艷美(うるはしき)を心(こころ)に戀(した)ふことなかれその眼(まな)瞼(ぶた)に捕(とら)へらるること勿(なか)れ
    Sono uruwashiki wo kokoro ni shitau koto nakare; Sono manabuta ni toraeraruru koto nakare
    Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
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