美醜

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 美醜 is read as びしゅう and is a noun pairing beauty and ugliness as an aesthetic judgment.
• Basic usage: Use 外見の美醜 for judgments of appearance and 美醜を超える for going beyond that contrast.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Keep both sides
  • Do not reduce it to beauty alone; the compound explicitly includes ugliness as the contrasting side.
• Limit expressed by だけで
  • 美醜だけで判断する means using appearance as the sole basis for judgment, which the sentence rejects.