美容
びよう · biyou · JLPT N2 · noun
form
💄 美 (beauty) + 容 (form, looks) = 美容: beauty of figure or form
美 means beauty and 容 means form or appearance, so the compound joins them into beauty of figure or form. The kanji 容 also appears in 内容 (contents), where it means what something holds.
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'.