印
yìn · HSK 6
🖨️ yìn sounds like IN — press ink IN to the page to print
The character originally depicted a hand pressing down on a seal. That stamping-in motion is exactly what printing and engraving do — force a mark into a surface.
印 — hand 爪 (claw) + kneeling person 卩
Originally a pictograph showing a hand pressing down on a kneeling figure, depicting the act of stamping or sealing. The meaning extended from 'to press a seal' to the seal itself, and then to 'print' or 'imprint' in modern usage.