びじん

See also: ひしん and びしん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of びじん – see the following entry.

【美人】 [noun] a beautiful woman, a beauty, a belle [noun] a handsome man [noun] (rare) an ideal ruler or sage, worthy of one's love and respect [noun] (historical) in ancient China, the fifth of fourteen ranks for imperial ladies-in-waiting [noun] (figurative) a euphemism for a rainbow

(This term, びじん (bijin), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)