MEI-3

每 = every

每个人 = mei(3)ge(4)ren(2) = everybody

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美 = beautiful

完美 = wan(2)mei(3) = perfect

Please note: in a sequence of two morphemes, a third tone in the second place is actually spoken as a third tone. It is important to be aware of this as a third tone in the first position of a two-morpheme expression is never spoken as a third tone.

美发 = mei(3) fa(4) = go to the hairdresser, have a haircut

Please note: a third tone in the first place of a two-morpheme word or a two-morpheme expression is never spoken as a third tone. If it preceeds a first, second, or fourth tone, it is spoken as a so-called 'half third tone', which, technically, is only the falling first half of a third tone, but for simplicity could be considered a fourth tone.

发 = fa(4) = hair (on the head)

Signboard of a beauty parlor in Guangzhou

美容 = mei(3)rong(2) = facial treatment

容 = rong(2) = facial expression

美甲 = mei(2) jia(3) = manicure

甲 = jia(3) = fingernails