美味
měiwèi · HSK 7
delicious
😋🍜 美味 = 美 beautiful + 味 taste = a beautiful taste, i.e. delicious
美 means beautiful and 味 means taste or flavor; together they label food whose flavor is beautiful. The 口 (mouth) on the left of 味 marks it as taste-related.
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'.