秧歌
yāng ge · HSK 7
a popular rural folk dance
🌾💃 秧 rice-seedling + 歌 song: a planting-song dance; yāng ge sounds like young guy
秧 means rice seedling and 歌 means song, so 秧歌 literally reads as seedling-song — a rural dance tied to farm life. The sound yāng ge echoes young guy dancing in the fields.
歌 — 哥 (phonetic 'gē') + 欠 (open mouth)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The right side 欠 depicts a person with an open mouth, supplying the meaning of singing or vocalizing. The left side 哥 gives the sound 'gē'. Together they form the verb and noun for 'song' or 'to sing'.