谋害
moú hài · HSK 7
to conspire to murder
🗡️ 谋 scheme + 害 harm = to scheme someone's harm, i.e. plot a murder
谋 means to plot or scheme; 害 means to harm or injure. Stack them and you get scheming-to-harm: conspiring to take someone's life. The 害 component carries the deadly weight here.
害 — 宀 roof + 丯 (phonetic) + 口 mouth
Originally an ideograph showing harm spoken under a roof, with 宀 (roof/house) on top, a phonetic element 丯 in the middle, and 口 (mouth) below suggesting harmful speech. Over time it shifted from 'injury caused by words' to the broader senses of 'harm,' 'injure,' and 'fear.'