敲诈
qiāo zhà · HSK 7
to extort
🔨💰 敲 knock + 诈 swindle = knock on someone to shake money out of them = extortion
敲 — 高 (tall) phonetic + 攴/攵 (strike) semantic
敲 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The right side 攴 (also written 攵) shows a hand holding a stick, giving the meaning 'to strike' or 'to knock.' The left side 高 'tall' supplies the sound. Together they depict the action of knocking or rapping on something.