掀
xiān · HSK 7
to lift
🍲 扌(hand) + 欣 xīn (joy) — a hand lifts the lid; 欣 gives the xiān sound
扌 is the hand radical and 欣 (xīn, glad) is the phonetic, nudging toward xiān. The hand-on-the-side meaning is to lift or throw off a lid, and by extension to rock or set something heaving.
掀 — hand radical 扌 + 欣 (xīn, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: the hand radical 扌 signals an action done with the hand, while 欣 (xīn) supplies the sound. The original sense is to lift or raise something with the hand, as in lifting a curtain or cover, which extends to figurative uses like stirring up a wave or movement.