织
zhī · HSK 6
to weave
🧶 Thread (糸) + knowledge (只 sounds like zhī) = to weave
The left radical 纟 means silk or thread. The right side 只 gives the sound zhī. Silk threads being worked together on a loom — thats weaving. Thread plus its sound component spells it out.
织 — silk radical 纟 + 只 (zhī, phonetic)
织 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 纟 (silk) signals the meaning, since the character originally referred to weaving threads of silk into cloth. The right side 只 hints at the pronunciation zhī. Today it broadly means 'to weave' or 'to knit.'