Does 'karei' mean beauty or beautiful in japanese?

Answer 1

☆YES!, ONE of the meanings of 'karei' in Japanese is 'beauty' - karei 佳麗 : かれい
(♡How nice if someone said that about you!)
☆Take a look here:
http://www.yesjapan.com/dictionary/yesjapan200k.php?language=Japanese&searchplace=beginning&searchfor=karei&go=Search%21&maxsearch=25
～It also has OTHER meanings though, such as:
*karei ( 佳例 : かれい )
good example
*karei ( 加齢 : かれい )
adding to one's years
*karei ( 嘉例 : かれい )
happy precedent
*karei ( 家令 : かれい )
1. steward
2. butler
*karei ( 家例 : かれい )
family custom
*karei ( 華麗 : かれい )
1. splendor (an)
2. magnificence

☆☆'Beautiful' in Japanese would be:
'Utsukushii' 美しい : うつくしい
1. beautiful
2. lovely
http://www.yesjapan.com/dictionary/yesjapan200k.php?language=english&searchplace=beginning&searchfor=beautiful&go=Search%21&maxsearch=25
'Beautiful (person) woman' would be:
'bijin' 美人 : びじん

☆☆The Japanese word 'kirei' 奇麗 : きれい means:
1. pretty
2. clean
3. nice
4. tidy
http://www.yesjapan.com/dictionary/yesjapan200k.php?language=Japanese&searchplace=beginning&searchfor=kirei&maxsearch=25

(*^o^*)These are useful sites for Japanese/English:
http://www.yesjapan.com/dictionary/yesjapan200k.php
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/j-e.cgi/dict

Hope this helps!♡

Answer 2

OK I figure that you mean kirei and not karei. I am translating directly for you from a Japanese dictionary called a kokugo jiten. It gives two seperate ways to write "kirei" one prefered over the other. But, I don't have the ability to write Japanese on this computer. So, the next point is the words "da" and "na" which tells us that kirei is a kind of adjective. (beautiful is your adjective.) (1) beautiful (utsukushii) "especially," it says, "the eyes that see... " (and I will have to get back to you on that,) some examples then follow: "hana ga kirei da." The flowers are beautiful. "kirei na josei." A beautiful woman." Then it waxes a little too literary for me with a quote no doubt from a famous source: "kuchisaki bakari kirei na koto." etc., etc. and a note on the kanji of second choice for "ki" again pretty obscure for me.
(2) yogore I will have to come back to this.

Answer 3

kirei or 綺麗 means:
1. beautiful, pretty, lovely, fine,
2. clean, pure, neat,

karei can have a lot of meanings, depending on the characters you use to write it, for example it can be:
1. a sort of fish 鰈
2. glitter, pomp, brilliance, or as an adjective splendid, gorgeous, luxuriant　華麗

and lots of others.　But I suppose you were actually interested in the meaning of kirei.

Answer 4

*•.♡Cyn♡.•* is right.

"Karei" is a noun and means beauty.
"kareina" is an adjective and means beautiful, or more precisely, splendid, gorgeous, glitter, and luxurious, depending on the context.

Answer 5

karei - means flounder
utsukushi-sa - beauty
kirei - pretty

Answer 6

kirei means pretty
karei, as you spelled it,means?????

utsukushii means beautiful

Answer 7

'karei' means curry or flounder (fish).

Answer 8

I beleive it is Kirei. pronounced Kee day, but yes you are basiclly correct

Answer 9

Yes.(^_^) http://www.freedict.com/onldict/onldict.php

Answer 10

it's "kirei"