搬家
bān jiā · HSK 3
to move house
📦🏠 搬 (move/transport) + 家 (home) = move house
搬 means to move or transport something heavy, and 家 means home or family. Together they literally describe the act of relocating a household — packing up and shifting your home to a new place.
搬 — hand 扌 + 般 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 gives the meaning of physical action — moving or carrying things — while 般 (bān) supplies the sound. 般 originally depicted turning a boat with a pole, so 搬 fits the sense of shifting objects from one place to another by hand.
家 — roof 宀 + pig 豕
Originally a pictograph of a pig under a roof, since domesticated pigs were kept in or under the home in ancient China. Over time the meaning broadened from 'household' to 'family,' and by extension 'home' or a specialist (as in 专家, 'expert').