僵
jiāng · HSK 7
rigid
🧟 person 亻 + 畺 (jiāng, rigid field-borders) = a body gone stiff; same jiāng sound
The 亻 person radical sits beside 畺, which both lends the jiāng sound and means hard, fixed land-boundaries. A person fixed and unmoving is rigid or stiff, hence a stiff corpse or a deadlock that wont budge.
僵 — 亻 person + 畺 boundary/phonetic
僵 is a phono-semantic compound: the 亻 (person) radical hints at meaning, while 畺 supplies the sound. It originally described a person fallen rigid, then extended to 'stiff,' 'frozen,' or 'deadlocked,' and gave us 僵尸 (jiāngshī), the stiff reanimated corpse.