好看
hǎokàn · HSK 1
good-looking
👀 好看 = 好 (good) + 看 (look) — literally good-to-look-at
Compound of 好 hǎo 'good' + 看 kàn 'look/watch'. Default sense is good-looking or nice (for things to view, like a film or outfit). The 'embarrassed' gloss is a mismatch — that sense belongs to 难看 or context-specific usage.
好 — woman 女 + child 子
好 is an associative compound showing a woman 女 beside a child 子, depicting a mother with her baby. From this image of maternal affection it came to mean 'good, fine, pleasing.' The reading hǎo means 'good'; read hào it means 'to like.'
看 — hand 手 over eye 目
看 is an associative compound showing a hand (手, simplified to 龹) shading an eye (目), depicting someone shielding their eyes to look into the distance. From this concrete gesture it broadened to mean 'to look,' 'to watch,' and later 'to read' or 'to consider.'