记载
jìzài · HSK 4
record
📝 记 (record) + 载 (to carry/load) = carry down in writing
记 means to remember or record; 载 means to load or carry (as in 下载 download). Together: to load something into the written record. Used for chronicles, archives, historical documents — anything formally written down.
记 — speech radical 讠 (言) + self 己
记 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 讠 (the 'speech' radical, simplified from 言) signals meaning related to words or recording, while 己 ('self') supplies the sound. Together it conveys writing down or remembering — noting things in words.