捞
lāo · HSK 7
to fish up
🎣 扌hand + 劳 labor (which also gives the lāo sound): hand doing the work of scooping up
The 扌hand radical on the left tells you it is a hand action; the right side 劳 láo means labor and carries the sound lāo. Together: the hand laboring to fish or dredge something up out of water.
捞 — hand radical 扌 + 劳 láo (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 indicates the meaning—an action done with the hand, namely scooping or fishing something out of liquid. The right side 劳 (láo) supplies the sound. Simplified from 撈, where 勞 served the same phonetic role.