收益
shoū yì · HSK 4
earnings
💰📈 收 (collect/receive) + 益 (benefit) = receive-benefit = earnings
收 means to collect or receive; 益 means benefit or profit (the character originally shows water overflowing a vessel, i.e. surplus). Together: the benefit you receive — earnings or profit.
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.