野炊
yěchuī · HSK 7
to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing); cookout
🍱🔥 野炊 = wild/field + cook = cooking outdoors, a picnic cookout
野 means wild or open field, 炊 means to cook over a fire. Put them together and you get cooking out in the open: a picnic. The 火 fire radical sits inside 炊, marking it as cooking.
野 — 里 (village) + 予 (phonetic)
Originally written 埜 (forest 林 over earth 土), depicting wild land beyond cultivated fields. The modern form 野 combines 里 (village/settled land) with 予 as a phonetic component, keeping the meaning of open country, wilderness, or untamed.