桑拿
sāng ná · HSK 7
sauna
🧖 loanword: sāng ná sounds like the English word sauna
Pure phonetic loan — 桑 (sāng, mulberry) and 拿 (ná, to take) are borrowed only for sound, not meaning. Say sāng-ná fast and you get sauna.
拿 — hand 手 + combine 合
拿 is a semantic compound: 合 (combine, bring together) sits over 手 (hand), giving the idea of hands joining to grasp something. It is a relatively late character that replaced the older 拏 in the meaning 'to take, hold, or seize.' Today it broadly means to take or hold in the hand.