美 means beautiful. The character of its Shell Bone script is
Which is combination of "sheep" on the top,
and a "big" on the bottom
Big Sheep is beautiful, ancient Chinese thought. Why? Possible big sheep means that you have more meat, or big sheep looks beautiful, or both.
Peking Opera has a type of headwear with long horn alike elastic whip on top.
Chinese believe that is beautiful.
The Shell Bone sccript of lady, or woman is
which is a lady kneels down with two arms across in front of the chest because the low social status of women in the ancient time, even before a few decades ago.
Here is my art work
on the left is 美 （beautiful) with long hair similar as Peking Opera headwear, and long legs; on the right is 女 （lady) who stands up with confidence and graceful posture because she is not in low social status anymore.
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