图片
túpiàn · HSK 2
picture
🖼️ 图片 = chart/diagram (图) + slice/piece (片)
图 means chart, drawing, or map; 片 means a flat slice or piece (also used for film/photo). Together: a flat piece of drawn/printed matter — a picture or photograph. Same 片 appears in 照片 (photo) and 影片 (movie).
图 — enclosure 囗 + 冬 (simplified from 啚)
Originally written 圖, showing an enclosure 囗 around 啚, a depiction of a granary or rural settlement on a map. The whole character meant a map or chart of demarcated territory. Meaning later broadened to picture, diagram, or to plan/scheme.
片 — right half of 木 (tree split vertically)
Pictograph showing the right half of a tree 木 split down the middle, depicting a thin slice or slab of wood. From this came the meanings 'slice,' 'flat thin piece,' and by extension 'sheet' or 'card.' Its mirror image 爿 represents the left half.