邀

yāo · HSK 7

invite

✉️ Walk radical 辶 + 敫: you go out on the road to call someone over and invite them

邀 — 辶 walk + 敫 (phonetic, 'bright/call out')
邀 is a phono-semantic compound. The 辶 radical signals motion or going, while 敫 supplies the sound and a sense of calling out or sending forth. Together they convey going out to meet or summon someone, which evolved into the modern meaning 'to invite'.

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