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Kanji Detail for 雅 - "elegant, graceful, refined"
雅
- Meaning
雅 means "elegant, graceful, refined."
Elegant - Refined; tasteful.
Correct - Good; proper.
Originally - By nature; from the beginning.
Crow - A bird of the crow family.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
gracious; elegant; graceful; refined
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
elegant, graceful, refined
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
elegant
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
elegant, graceful, refined
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A crow. Today written as 鴉. | Correct. Also, a type of ancient musical poetry. The Book of Odes has 大雅 (Greater Odes) and 小雅 (Lesser Odes). Refers to proper music. | Ordinary. The Analects says: "What the Master ordinarily spoke of." | A book title. The Erya is also abbreviated as 雅. After that, many books on exegesis modeled after the Erya are called 雅. Such as Guangya, Piya, and the like. | 嫻雅. Refers to being practiced in ceremonial deportment and acting appropriately. | The opposite of vulgar. Having standards and rules, not following common trends is called 雅. | Plain or usual. Refers to one's ordinary state. As in 一日之雅 means having one day's ordinary acquaintance. | Very. A particle. Occasionally used in ancient texts.
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