美人
びじん · bijin · JLPT N3 · noun
person
美人 = beautiful (美 bi) + person (人 jin)
美 (bi) means beautiful, as in 美術 bijutsu, art. 人 (jin) means person, as in 日本人 nihonjin, a Japanese person. Together they make a beautiful person. It is usually said of a woman.
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'.
人 — pictograph of a standing person
人 is a pictograph showing a person viewed from the side, with two strokes representing the legs and torso of a standing human. In oracle bone script it clearly depicted a figure leaning slightly forward. The meaning has remained 'person' or 'human' throughout its history.