媲美
pì měi · HSK 7
to match
⚖️ 媲 holds 比 (compare) + 美 = beauty; 媲美 = compares as a beauty's equal, i.e. to match
媲 packs 比 (to compare) beside 女; pair it with 美 (beautiful) and 媲美 means one thing stacks up to another, comparable in quality. Sound pì měi rhymes with pea-May, two peas weighed on a scale as equals.
美 — sheep 羊 on top + big 大 below
美 is traditionally explained as a pictograph of a person (大) wearing a large sheep or ram's-head ornament, suggesting beauty through adornment. An alternative reading takes 羊 (sheep) over 大 (big) to mean 'a big, fat sheep'—seen as delicious and pleasing, hence 'beautiful, good'.