榨
zhà · HSK 7
to extract
🍊🥤 木 wood + 乍 = a wooden device that presses fruit to extract juice
榨 — wood 木 + 窄 (narrow, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The wood radical 木 points to a wooden press or frame, while 窄 (zhǎi, 'narrow') supplies the sound and hints at squeezing through a tight space. The character originally named a press for extracting oil or juice, and now broadly means to press or squeeze out.