景区
jǐng qū · HSK 7
scenic area
🏞️ 景区 = 景 scenery + 区 zone = a marked-off scenic zone, a tourist scenic area
景 means scenery or view (same 景 as in 风景, landscape); 区 means district or zone (same 区 as in 地区, region). Stack them and you get a designated scenery-zone: a scenic area or tourist spot.
景 — sun 日 on top + capital 京 below (phonetic)
景 is a semantic-phonetic compound: 日 (sun) gives the meaning and 京 (jīng, capital) supplies the sound. It originally meant 'sunlight' or 'bright', then extended to 'shadow cast by sunlight', and later broadened to 'scenery' or 'view'.
区 — enclosure 匚 + 品 (items)
Originally a pictograph of items (品) hidden inside a container (匚), meaning to store or conceal. The sense extended to a bounded space, then to an administrative district or area. As a surname read Ōu, it preserves the older 'hidden/enclosed' nuance.