装修
zhuāngxiū · HSK 4
renovate
🔨🏠 装 = install + 修 = repair → install-and-repair = renovate
装 carries the sense of fitting/installing (as in 安装), and 修 means to repair or fix up. Together they describe outfitting and fixing a space — what English calls renovation or interior decoration.
装 — clothes 衣 + strong 壮 (phonetic)
装 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The bottom 衣 ('clothes') gives the meaning, since the original sense was packing or dressing—putting clothes or goods into a bundle. The top 壮 supplies the sound. Meanings extended from 'to dress/attire' to 'to load, install, pretend'.
修 — 亻 person + 攸 (phonetic) + 彡 hair/decoration
修 combines 攸 (a phonetic component originally showing a person being washed) with 彡, which depicts flowing hair or ornamental strokes. The 彡 element suggests grooming, polishing, or adorning, giving 修 its core meaning of cultivating, repairing, or refining oneself or things.