音像
yīn xiàng · HSK 6
audio and video
🔊📹 sound + elephant = audio-video (elephant as in appearance/image)
音 means sound/audio. 像 means likeness or image (same 像 as in 大象/elephant, extended to mean resemblance). Together they cover everything you can hear and see — audiovisual media.
像 — person radical 亻 + elephant 象
Originally 象 alone meant 'elephant' and by extension 'image/likeness,' since elephants were rare and people knew them mainly through depictions. The 亻 (person) radical was later added to specialize the meaning as 'image, likeness, resemble,' leaving 象 for the animal itself.