梳理
shū lǐ · HSK 7
to comb
🪮 梳 comb + 理 arrange = comb out tangles, sort things into order
梳 is the comb (hair radical 木 on the left for the wooden tool); 理 means to manage or put in order. Together: run a comb through something, literally hair or figuratively a messy problem, until it is untangled and orderly.
梳 — wood radical 木 + 流 (without 氵)
梳 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The wood radical 木 indicates the material, since combs were traditionally carved from wood. The right side 疏-like component (originally related to 流) suggests the sound and the idea of flowing or smoothing through, fitting a comb that glides through hair.
理 — jade radical 玉/王 + village 里 (phonetic)
理 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the jade radical 王 (玉) on the left signals meaning, while 里 on the right gives the sound. It originally meant the natural veins or grain in a piece of jade, then extended to 'pattern,' 'order,' 'principle,' and finally the modern senses 'reason' and 'to manage.'