优雅
yōuyǎ · HSK 7
elegant
🦢 优 excellent + 雅 refined = elegant; a swan is excellent and refined
优 means excellent or superior; 雅 means refined or tasteful. Stack them and you get polished, well-bred elegance. The sound youya also rhymes near you in yodel for an upbeat, smooth feel.
优 — person radical 亻 + worry 憂
优 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the person radical 亻 indicates a human, while 憂 (worry, also providing the sound) originally depicted an actor or performer who moved others emotionally. From 'actor' it extended to 'graceful, refined,' and in modern Chinese it commonly means 'excellent' or 'superior.'