烤鸭
kǎo yā · HSK 5
roast duck
🦆 烤 (roast) + 鸭 (duck) = roast duck; Peking duck is the famous dish
烤 kǎo means to roast or bake (note the 火 fire radical on the left). 鸭 yā is duck, with 甲 jiǎ on the left as a phonetic hint and 鸟 niǎo (bird) on the right confirming the category.
烤 — fire radical 火 + 考 (kǎo, phonetic)
烤 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The fire radical 火 on the left signals the meaning—cooking with heat, roasting or baking—while 考 on the right supplies the sound kǎo. It is a relatively modern character, popularized in the 20th century to write the everyday verb 'to roast,' as in 烤鸭 (roast duck).