賛美
さんび · sanbi · JLPT N1 · noun
praise
🎶 賛 = praise + 美 = beauty: to praise as beautiful, as in 賛美歌 hymns
賛 means praise or support, and 美 means beauty. Together they mean praising something as beautiful, the root of 賛美歌 (hymn of praise) sung in worship.
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'.