顾
gù · HSK 6
turn round and look at
👀 顾 = 厄 (cliff/hardship) + 页 (head/page); turn the head to look back
The right side 页 means head, and historically the left was 雇 (hire); the character carries the sense of turning one's head to attend to something or someone. Hence meanings like look after, consider, patronize.
顾 — page 頁 + cliff 厃 (phonetic 雇)
顧 is a semantic-phonetic compound: 頁 (head) gives the meaning of turning the head to look back, while 雇 supplies the sound. The original sense was 'to turn and gaze,' which extended to 'consider, care for, attend to.' The simplified form 顾 keeps the same structure with 页.