扳
bān , pān · HSK 7
to turn around
🔧 BAN the stuck bolt — pull and turn it around
Sounds like 'ban.' When you ban something stuck, you grab it and wrench it the other way. The character combines hand (扌) and opposite/reverse (反), literally a hand turning something around.
扳 — hand radical 扌 + 反 (fǎn, reverse)
扳 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 signals an action done with the hand, while 反 ('to turn over, reverse') hints at both the sound (bān/pān) and the meaning. Together it depicts pulling or turning something with the hand, as in pulling a trigger or wrenching something into a new position.