拌
bàn · HSK 7
to mix
🥗🥢 BAN the plain salad — toss and mix it up
The left radical 扌 is a hand doing the action. The right side 半 (bàn, half) gives the sound. A hand combining half of this with half of that — thats mixing.
拌 — hand radical 扌 + half 半
A semantic-phonetic compound: 扌 (hand) gives the meaning of a manual action, while 半 (bàn, 'half') supplies the sound. The original sense was to mix or stir by hand, as when combining ingredients, which extends to modern uses like 拌面 (mixed noodles) and 拌嘴 (to bicker).