感
gǎn · HSK 7
feel
💓 咸 (xián, salty) + 心 (heart) = a heart moved/touched by feeling
感 stacks 咸 (salty, phonetic clue for gǎn) over 心 (heart). The heart radical carries the meaning: emotions, sensing, being moved. Common in 感觉 (feeling), 感谢 (thank), 感冒 (catch a cold).
感 — heart 心 + 咸 (xián, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The heart radical 心 at the bottom carries the meaning of feeling or emotion, while 咸 supplies the sound. Together 感 conveys being moved in the heart, hence 'to feel,' 'sense,' or 'be affected by' something.