抵制
dǐzhì · HSK 7
boycott
🚫 dee-juh sounds like D.J. — refuse to play their tracks
抵 (resist) + 制 (control/restrain) = resist and restrain, i.e. boycott. A D.J. who refuses to spin certain records is running a one-person boycott of that music.
制 — knife 刂 + 未 (tree branches)
Originally depicted a knife 刂 cutting branches from a tree, showing the act of trimming or shaping wood. From this concrete sense of cutting to size came the meanings 'to make,' 'to manufacture,' and by extension 'to control' or 'regulate' — shaping things to a desired form.