雕刻
diāokè · HSK 7
to carve; to engrave
🗿 雕 eagle + 刻 cut = an eagle carved from stone
雕 originally meant eagle — a bird so finely detailed it looked carved. 刻 means to cut or engrave. Together they mean the art of carving, or its result: a sculpture.
雕 — 周 (zhōu, phonetic) + 隹 (zhuī, short-tailed bird)
雕 is a semantic-phonetic compound: 隹 'short-tailed bird' gives the meaning (a large bird of prey, the eagle/vulture), while 周 supplies the sound. It was later borrowed for the sense 'to carve, engrave', since fine carving resembles a bird's pecking, and now also writes 凋 'wither' in some compounds.
刻 — knife radical 刂 + 亥 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The right side 亥 supplies the sound, while the knife radical 刂 on the right gives the meaning, since 刻 originally referred to carving or engraving with a blade. From 'to carve' it extended to marking time notches on a sundial, hence the modern sense of 'a moment' or 'quarter hour'.