就读
jiùdú · HSK 7
attend school
🏫📖 就 go-to + 读 read = go to read = attend school
就 carries the sense of going to or taking up something; 读 means to read or study. Together they name the act of taking up reading at a school — enrolling and attending. Sound: jiùdú, the dú echoes 读 study.
就 — 京 (capital) + 尤 (especially)
Originally a compound suggesting going to a high place (京 depicts a tall building) to settle or accomplish something. Over time the meaning shifted from 'approach a high place' to 'go to,' then broadened to 'accomplish,' and finally to the modern grammatical senses 'then,' 'just,' or 'precisely.'
读 — speech radical 讠 + 卖 (mài, sell)
读 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 讠 (speech) gives the meaning, since reading is tied to speaking words aloud. The right side 卖 originally provided the sound; in the traditional form 讀 the phonetic was 賣 (yù/dú).