JLPT N1 · な-adjective

優美 (yuubi)

優美 (ゆうび, yuubi) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “grace; refinement”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
ゆうび
Romaji
yuubi
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. grace; refinement; elegance; daintiness · な-adjective, noun

Example sentences

大部分ではないにしても多くの人々が文学的趣味を優美なたしなみと見なしている。
Many people, if not most, look on literary taste as an elegant accomplishment.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of 優美

な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)優美だゆうびだ yuubida
Present (polite)優美ですゆうびです yuubidesu
Negative優美じゃないゆうびじゃない yuubijanai
Past優美だったゆうびだった yuubidatta
Negative past優美じゃなかったゆうびじゃなかった yuubijanakatta
Te-form優美でゆうびで yuubide
Before a noun優美なゆうびな yuubina
Adverb (~ni)優美にゆうびに yuubini

Kanji in 優美

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 優美.

Source: JMdict entry 1539560 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.