腔
qiāng · HSK 7
cavity of body
🫁 腔 = 月 (flesh/body radical) + 空 (empty space) — the empty hollow inside the body
腔 — flesh 月 (肉) + cavity 空
A semantic-phonetic compound. The flesh radical 月 (from 肉) signals a body-related meaning, while 空 (kōng, 'empty/hollow') supplies both the sound and the sense of a hollow space. Together 腔 originally meant a hollow cavity inside the body, later extended to 'tone of voice' and 'manner of speaking.'