美丽 — stroke order
Learn how to write 美丽 (měilì), which means “beautiful”. It is written with 2 characters and 16 strokes in total. In traditional Chinese it is written 美麗. Each character below is animated in the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap any character to replay it, or use “Play all strokes” to watch the whole word written in order.
Character by character
| Character | Pinyin | 注音 | Meaning | Strokes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 美 | měi | ㄇㄟˇ | beautiful, pretty | 9 |
| 丽 | lì | ㄌㄧˋ | beautiful, elegant, magnificent | 7 |