丰收
fēng shoū · HSK 5
bumper harvest
🌾 丰 = abundant + 收 = harvest/gather
丰 means abundant or lush, and 收 means to gather or harvest. Together, 丰收 names a bumper harvest — a gathering that came in abundant. The 丰 character itself depicts heaped grain stalks, reinforcing the abundance sense.
收 — 丩 (jiū, cord/bind) + 攵 (rap/strike, action)
Originally written 收, this character combines 丩 'twisted cord' as the phonetic with 攵 'a hand holding a stick' as the semantic, depicting the action of binding up captives or gathering things together by force. The core sense 'to gather, collect, harvest' grew naturally from this image of rounding up and tying.