粗糙
cū cāo · HSK 7
rough
🪨 coo-COW! Touch a rough stone and coarse sandpaper back to back
米 (rice) inside 粗 suggests unrefined grain; 造 in 糙 means 'make' — something made roughly, not polished. The sound 'coo-cow' is abrupt and gritty, matching the texture.
粗 — rice 米 + crude/rough 且
A semantic-phonetic compound. The left 米 (rice) hints at the meaning, since unhulled or coarsely milled rice is rough and grainy. The right 且 supplies the sound. From 'coarse rice' the meaning extended to 'thick, rough, crude' in general.