宴会
yàn huì · HSK 6
banquet
🍽️🎉 yàn sounds like YEN for fancy dining; huì = gathering
A banquet is a gathering (会 huì) centered on elaborate eating (宴 yàn). Think: you'd spend plenty of YEN at such a lavish dinner gathering. The character 宴 has a roof radical (宀) over comfort — feasting under one roof.
会 — 人 person on top + 云 cloud/say below (simplified from 會)
The traditional form 會 showed a lid over a vessel with contents stacked inside, depicting things coming together — hence 'meet, gather, assemble.' From 'gathering' it extended to 'meeting,' then 'understand' (minds meeting) and 'be able to.' The simplified 会 keeps only a schematic top and bottom.