妙

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exquisite

On-Yomi: ミョウ、ビョウ — Kun-Yomi: たえ

Elements:

exquisite, woman, few

Heisig story:

The primitive for woman is on the left (there and at the bottom of another primitive is where you will always find her), and to the right the element for few. When we refer to a woman as exquisite, we mean to praise her as the sort of person we meet but few and far between. If you are interested in etymologies, it might help to recall that the Latin phrase lying at the root of the English word exquisite carries this same sense of "seeking out" the rare from the ordinary.

Koohii stories:

1) [amthomas] 11-6-2007(305): Exquisite women are few and far between.

2) [LeoOra] 27-1-2008(44): A geisha is an exquisite and delicate (another meaning of this kanji) women, however, even in the past there was only few of them.

3) [oohansel] 16-4-2009(31): Exquisite women are few.

4) [uchifly] 5-11-2009(16): All WOMEN are beautiful, only a FEW are EXQUISITE…

5) [oRis1024] 20-7-2008(7): Women have exquisite taste - they only like few things.

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