残疾人
cán jí rén · HSK 6
disabled person
♿ 残 (damaged) + 疾 (illness) + 人 (person) = disabled person
残 means damaged/incomplete, 疾 means illness or disease, and 人 means person. Together 残疾人 literally reads as damaged-illness-person — the standard term for a person with disabilities.
残 — 歹 (bones/death) + 戔 (small/cut, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 歹 (bare bones, death) gives the meaning of harm or ruin, while 戔 (two 戈 spears, suggesting cutting) supplies the sound. Originally meant to injure or destroy, later extended to 'remnant, leftover' — what remains after damage.
人 — pictograph of a standing person
人 is a pictograph showing a person viewed from the side, with two strokes representing the legs and torso of a standing human. In oracle bone script it clearly depicted a figure leaning slightly forward. The meaning has remained 'person' or 'human' throughout its history.