秀美
xiù měi · HSK 7
elegant
🦢 秀美 = 秀 refined/excellent + 美 beautiful = refined beauty, graceful
秀 carries the sense of outstanding or refined (the same 秀 in talent-show 秀), and 美 means beautiful. Stack them and you get a beauty that is polished and elegant rather than flashy.
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'.