Appendix:Gikun Usage in Meiji Version of Japanese Bible/美麗(うつくしさ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
美	麗
Grade: 3	Grade: S
irregular

Etymology

Gikun word derived by applying Chinese-derived spelling 美麗 (“beautiful”), a term which decomposes into 美 (“beautiful”) + 麗 (“lovely”), to native Japanese word: うつくしい (utsukushii, “beautiful”).

Noun

美麗 (うつくしさ)^[1](utsukushisa, noun form of うつく.しい, utsuku.shii)　→　美 (うつく)しい (utsuku.shii)

beauty

Quotations

^ OT, page 1110:
汝(なんぢ)の美貌(うつくしさ)のために汝(なんぢ)の名(な)は國々(くにぐに)にひろまれり是(これ)わが汝(なんぢ)にほどこせしわれの飾物(かざり)によりて汝(なんぢ)の美麗(うつくしさ)極(きはま)りたればなり主(しゆ)ヱホバこれを言(い)ふ
Nanji no utsukushisa no tame ni nanji no na wa kuniguni ni hiromareri kore waga nanji ni hodokoseshi ware no kazari ni yorite nanji no utsukushisa kiwamaritareba nari Shu Ehoba koro wo iu
And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it [thy beauty] was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD

[Gen_12:11-1] OT, page 1110:
汝(なんぢ)の美貌(うつくしさ)のために汝(なんぢ)の名(な)は國々(くにぐに)にひろまれり是(これ)わが汝(なんぢ)にほどこせしわれの飾物(かざり)によりて汝(なんぢ)の美麗(うつくしさ)極(きはま)りたればなり主(しゆ)ヱホバこれを言(い)ふ
Nanji no utsukushisa no tame ni nanji no na wa kuniguni ni hiromareri kore waga nanji ni hodokoseshi ware no kazari ni yorite nanji no utsukushisa kiwamaritareba nari Shu Ehoba koro wo iu
And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it [thy beauty] was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD

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