捆
kǔn · HSK 7
bunch
🪢 扌hand + 困 kùn (trapped/enclosed) = hands wrap and tie a bundle tight; shares the kun sound
捆 — hand radical 扌 + 困 (kùn, bind/trapped)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 signals the action, while 困 supplies the sound and reinforces the sense of being bound or enclosed. Together they mean to tie up or a bundle, as in 一捆柴 (a bundle of firewood).