舒服
shūfú · HSK 2
comfortable
🛋️ 舒 = stretch out + 服 = clothes/submit; relaxed body, loose clothes = comfy
舒 carries the sense of unfolding or stretching out, and 服 means clothing or to yield. Together they describe the ease of a body stretched out in loose clothes — the literal feel of comfortable.
服 — 月 (moon/flesh) + 𠬝 (kneeling figure with hand)
Originally depicted a hand subduing a kneeling person beside a boat (later simplified to 月), suggesting submission or service. The meaning extended from 'submit/serve' to 'clothing' (what one wears in service) and 'to take' as in medicine. The phonetic role of 𠬝 helps fix the reading fú.