While「big sheep」are unquestionably「praiseworthy」in their own right in various ways, we can only speculate how all these associated meanings evolved of CLEVER, SKILLED, EXPERT, WISE, SUCCESSFUL as in finding a way to solve the problem at hand, PLEASING ONESELF, BEAUTIFUL, lookin' PRETTY…could it be the「sheep in one's two hands」?
　Notwithstanding, it may be supposed that sheep herders as shepherds become awfully lonely, too. Placement of these elements as one's「two hands wide」behind, below the「sheep」and not in front cannot be dismissed out of hand altogether (see the related glyph 羍 with「two hands, big」above「sheep」). Maybe those sheep did start LOOKING PRETTY GOOD AFTER AWHILE, with a DESIRABLE APPEARANCE to their shepherds after a few weeks, days, or even hours away from home (it is reported that sheep have the most beautiful eyes, in particular…), and actually this fact is exactly what this glyph depicts: whatever we are actively engaging sexually that triggers oxytocin and dopamine releases to the brain (even sheep, or shit, or sheep shit, and so on) will soon look BEAUTIFUL to humans:
　「Now a new study has found that the same regions of the brain that control love also control sex -- indicating that sexual desire can actually morph into love. That's right. If a woman has sex with a man, he might not only buy the cow but love the cow, as well. [same is true for ewes] 'Love and sex are clearly overlapping and they are different,' says Jim Pfaus, a professor of psychology at Concordia University in Montreal who's been studying love and libidos for more than a decade. 'You can have desire for sex without love.' But sex can also be the start of a beautiful relationship. How does all of this work? The brain's insular cortex (or insula) and the striatum play a role in both sexual desire and love. The insula is nestled deep within the cerebral cortex and influences emotions. While the striatum resides in the forebrain and receives messages from the cortex. …[L]ove and sexual desire both activate the striatum, showing a continuum from sexual desire to love. Each feeling impacts a different area of the striatum. Sexual desire activates the ventral striatum, the brain's reward system. When someone enjoys a great dessert or an orgasm, it's the ventral striatum that flickers with life. Love sparks activity in the dorsal striatum, which is associated with drug addiction.」(to wit: addiction to the dopamine releases that are triggered by orgasm)
　　[　https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/first-come-sex-then-comes-marriage-love-can-grow-lust-flna863774 2023-05-17　]　
　Some scholars suggest that this is some sort of headdress fashioned from sheepskin and horns, anciently used as the Miss or Mister Universe-like award for BEAUTY (…we don't think so. See 羹).
　GORGEOUS of course relates to items with gorges (narrow and deep valleys), or, to gorging and stuffing oneself, gluttonously eating, greedily devouring: take you pick as to which meaning applies, or consider that both do.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: beautiful; very satisfactory; good; to be pleased with oneself; the Americas; abbr. for 美洲; USA; abbr. for 美國|美国
Japanese: beauty, august, beautiful, skillful, clever, expert, wise, successful, delicious, appetizing, appetising, fortunate, splendid, promising, lovely
Unihan extended: beautiful, pretty; pleasing
EDRDG: beauty; beautiful

Used within names (nanori)
はる　･　よし　･　よしみ　･　り