赞美
zàn měi · HSK 7
to praise
👏 赞美 = 赞 praise/commend + 美 beautiful = to praise something beautiful
赞 carries the sense of commend or endorse (the same 赞 as a thumbs-up like), and 美 means beautiful or fine. Put together they mean to praise or admire, often with a warm, eulogizing tone.
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'.