相片
xiàngpiàn · HSK 4
photograph
📷🖼️ 相片 = appearance + slice; a sliced-off appearance is a photo
相 means appearance or likeness; 片 means a thin slice or piece (same 片 as in 卡片 card). A photograph is literally a thin slice of someone's appearance captured on paper.
片 — right half of 木 (tree split vertically)
Pictograph showing the right half of a tree 木 split down the middle, depicting a thin slice or slab of wood. From this came the meanings 'slice,' 'flat thin piece,' and by extension 'sheet' or 'card.' Its mirror image 爿 represents the left half.