拼
pīn · HSK 5
to piece together
🧩 扌(hand) + 并(merge) = hand pieces things together
The hand radical 扌shows physical action; 并 means to combine or merge. Together: hands joining pieces into one. Extended sense of staking all comes from 拼命 (pīnmìng) — pitting one's life together against a challenge.
拼 — hand radical 扌 + 并 (combine)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 gives the meaning of an action done by hand—putting things together—while 并 (bìng, 'combine, merge') supplies both the sound and reinforces the sense of joining. The character means to piece together, splice, or spell out by combining parts.