惦记
diàn jì · HSK 7
to think of
💭 diàn jì sounds like DYIN to JEEP — you keep thinking about your old Jeep
店 (shop/store) + 记 (remember). Your heart stores memories like a shop stores goods — to keep someone on your mind is to stock them in your mental shop.
记 — speech radical 讠 (言) + self 己
记 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 讠 (the 'speech' radical, simplified from 言) signals meaning related to words or recording, while 己 ('self') supplies the sound. Together it conveys writing down or remembering — noting things in words.