游人
yoú rén · HSK 6
tourist
🧳 yoú rén ≈ YOU ROAM — a roaming person is a tourist
游 means to swim or roam freely, 人 means person. A tourist is literally a roaming person, drifting from sight to sight.
游 — water radical 氵 + 斿 (banner/streamer)
游 combines the water radical 氵 with 斿, which depicts a banner streaming in the wind. The original sense was a flag fluttering or floating, extended to drifting on water, swimming, and wandering. Today it commonly means to swim, travel, or roam.
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.