收据
shoū jù · HSK 7
receipt
🧾 收 receive + 据 evidence = the proof you received something = a receipt
收 means to receive or collect, and 据 means evidence or proof. A receipt is the documented evidence that a payment was received. Sound: shoū jù, with shoū sharing the level first tone of 收.
收 — 丩 (jiū, cord/bind) + 攵 (rap/strike, action)
Originally written 收, this character combines 丩 'twisted cord' as the phonetic with 攵 'a hand holding a stick' as the semantic, depicting the action of binding up captives or gathering things together by force. The core sense 'to gather, collect, harvest' grew naturally from this image of rounding up and tying.
据 — hand radical 扌 + 豦
据 combines the hand radical 扌 with the phonetic component 豦. Originally meaning to seize or grasp with the hand, it later extended to 'rely on' or 'according to.' In modern simplified Chinese, 据 also serves as the simplified form of 據, merging the two characters' meanings.