收获
shōuhuò · HSK 4
harvest
🌾 收 = receive/collect + 获 = obtain/capture; collected gains
收 means to receive or gather (think harvest tax 收税); 获 means to obtain or capture (also in 获得 to acquire). Together they mean the harvest you bring in — crops, gains, or results from effort.
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.
获 — dog radical 犭 + 蒦 (phonetic, grasp)
获 originally depicted catching a bird by hand, with 蒦 showing a hand grasping a bird. The dog radical 犭 was added to mean catching prey while hunting. In modern simplified Chinese, 获 also absorbed 穫 (harvesting grain), so it now covers both 'catch/obtain' and 'reap'.