好意
こうい · koui · JLPT N1 · noun
grace
🎁 好 (good) + 意 (intention/mind) = a good intention toward someone = good will
意 means mind or intention, so 好意 is literally good mind. Use it for a kindness or courtesy offered to someone, like a favor done without being asked.
好 — woman 女 + child 子
好 is an associative compound showing a woman 女 beside a child 子, depicting a mother with her baby. From this image of maternal affection it came to mean 'good, fine, pleasing.' The reading hǎo means 'good'; read hào it means 'to like.'