棍
gùn · HSK 7
stick
🥢 木 wood + 昆 (kūn, the sound) = a wooden rod; 昆 gives the gùn sound
The 木 radical marks it as something wooden, and 昆 is the phonetic part nudging toward gùn. A 棍 is a plain wooden stick, rod, or club.
棍 — wood radical 木 + 昆 (kūn)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The wood radical 木 on the left signals the meaning, since a 棍 is a stick or rod made of wood. The right side 昆 (kūn) supplies the sound, hinting at the modern reading gùn.