审批
shěn pī · HSK 7
to examine and approve
✅📋 审 examine + 批 approve = examine-and-approve, the official sign-off on a form
审 means to scrutinize or review; 批 means to mark approval (as in 批准). Together 审批 is the formal act of reviewing a request and granting endorsement, like a manager signing off on paperwork.
批 — hand radical 扌 + 比 (compare, phonetic)
批 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the hand radical 扌 signals an action done with the hand, while 比 supplies the sound (bǐ → pī). Its original sense was to strike or slap with the hand, which extended to 'push aside,' then to 'judge' or 'comment on' (as in 批评), and finally to 'a batch' of things handled together.