美好
měihǎo · HSK 3
fine
🌸 美 = beautiful + 好 = good; beautiful-good = fine, glorious
美 (měi) means beautiful and 好 (hǎo) means good. Stack them and you get 美好 — fine, happy, glorious. Common in set phrases like 美好的生活 (a fine life) and 美好的回忆 (happy memories).
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'.
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.'