裸露

luǒ lù · HSK 7

bare

裸 (naked) + 露 (reveal/expose) = laid bare with nothing covering it

裸 — clothes radical 衤 + fruit 果
A semantic-phonetic compound: 衤 (clothing) gives the meaning, while 果 (guǒ) supplies the sound. Originally meaning 'to strip off clothing,' it came to mean 'naked' or 'bare.' The clothing radical ironically marks the absence of clothes.

露 — rain 雨 (top) + road 路 (bottom, phonetic)
露 combines 雨 'rain' as the meaning component with 路 'road' as the phonetic. It originally referred to dew — the moisture that settles overnight on outdoor paths. From there it extended to 'expose' or 'reveal,' since dew lies open on surfaces.

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