理睬
lǐ cǎi · HSK 7
to heed
👀 理 manage/reason + 睬 (has 目 eye radical) = give it your reasoned eye, i.e. heed it
睬 carries the 目 eye radical: to notice is to point your eyes at something. Pair it with 理 reason/attend, and 理睬 means to give a matter your reasoned attention rather than ignore it. Often used in the negative: 不理睬 = to ignore.
理 — jade radical 玉/王 + village 里 (phonetic)
理 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the jade radical 王 (玉) on the left signals meaning, while 里 on the right gives the sound. It originally meant the natural veins or grain in a piece of jade, then extended to 'pattern,' 'order,' 'principle,' and finally the modern senses 'reason' and 'to manage.'