照料
zhào liào · HSK 7
to take care of sb
🍼 照 look after + 料 to handle/manage = to tend, take care of someone
照 carries the sense of looking after, and 料 means to handle or manage; together they describe caring for a person. Sound: zhào liào, the liào rhyming with the start of liáo as in attending to needs.
照 — 昭 (bright) phonetic + 灬 (fire radical)
照 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The bottom 灬 is a variant of 火 'fire', giving the meaning of light or illumination, while 昭 'bright' on top supplies the sound 'zhào' and reinforces the brightness sense. It originally meant to shine light on something, later extending to 'reflect', 'photograph', and 'according to'.
料 — rice 米 + dipper 斗
料 combines 米 (rice/grain) with 斗 (a measuring dipper), depicting the act of measuring out grain. From this concrete sense it extended to 'to measure, estimate, anticipate' and to 'materials' (things measured out for use), as in 材料 'materials' and 预料 'to anticipate'.