披
pī · HSK 5
to drape over one's shoulders
🧥 扌 (hand) + 皮 (skin/hide) — hand draping a hide over shoulders
Phono-semantic: 扌 gives the hand-action sense (draping, opening, splitting), and 皮 (pí) supplies the sound pī. Core idea: a hand putting an outer layer onto something, hence drape, unroll, or split open.
披 — hand radical 扌 + skin 皮 (phonetic)
披 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 gives the meaning, since the original sense involved using the hand to split or drape something open. 皮 ('skin') supplies the sound. From 'split open' it extended to 'drape over' or 'wrap around the shoulders.'