架势
jià shi · HSK 7
attitude
🥋 架 frame + 势 momentum = the frame your stance projects; a posture or attitude
架 means frame or framework, 势 means force or momentum. Together: the stance you set up, your posture or attitude on something. A martial-arts 架势 is literally the ready stance you adopt.
架 — wood 木 + add 加 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 木 (wood) gives the meaning, since a 架 is a wooden frame, rack, or shelf used to support things. 加 (jiā) supplies the sound. From 'wooden frame' it extended to verbs like 'to set up,' 'to prop up,' and to a measure word for framed objects such as airplanes.