跳伞
tiào sǎn · HSK 7
to parachute
🪂 跳 jump + 伞 umbrella = jump out under an umbrella = parachute
跳 (tiào) is the same jump as in 跳舞 dance and 心跳 heartbeat. 伞 (sǎn) means umbrella; a parachute is just a giant umbrella you jump with. So 跳伞 literally reads jump-umbrella.
跳 — foot 足 + 兆 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The foot radical 足 carries the meaning, since jumping is done with the feet, while 兆 (zhào) supplies the sound. Originally meaning 'to leap' or 'spring up,' it later extended to senses like 'skip over' and 'beat' (as in a pulse).
伞 — top 人 + four 人 + central 十
伞 is a pictograph of an open umbrella or parasol viewed from the side. The top stroke shows the canopy, the small strokes underneath represent the ribs or people sheltering, and the vertical line is the handle. It is a simplified form of the traditional 傘.