美味しい
おいしい · oishii · JLPT N5 · i-adj
delicious
😋🍣 美味しい = beautiful (美) + taste (味) + adjective ending しい
The kanji spell out beautiful taste, though the reading oishii comes from an older word, oishi, with the polite o- prefix. Sound hook: oh-ee-shee, like saying Oh, easy! when a dish goes down without effort.
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'.