抗议
kàngyì · HSK 6
protest
✊📢 抗议 = resist + discuss — opposing something out loud
抗 (kàng) means resist or oppose. 议 (yì) means discuss or debate. A protest is pushing back through vocal argument.
议 — speech radical 讠 (言) + 义 (yì, righteousness)
议 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The speech radical 讠 (言) signals meaning related to talking, while 义 supplies the sound 'yì'. Together they convey discussing or deliberating—literally 'speech about what is right,' which fits its modern senses of 'discuss' and 'proposal.'