美容
měiróng · HSK 6
improve looks
💄✨ 美容 = beauty (美) + appearance (容) — beautifying how you look
美 means beautiful and 容 means face or appearance. Together they form the concept of improving or enhancing ones looks. A 美容院 is a beauty salon.
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'.