验收
yàn shoū · HSK 7
to inspect and accept
🔍✅ 验收 = 验 inspect/test + 收 receive/accept = check it then sign for it
验 carries the sense of testing or examining (as in 实验 experiment, 检验 inspect); 收 means to receive or accept (as in 收到 received). Together: you inspect goods and then formally accept them. yàn shōu, the inspect-then-accept handoff.
验 — horse radical 马 + 佥 (all/together)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The horse radical 马 originally referred to inspecting horses, while 佥 (qiān, 'all together') supplied the sound. Over time the meaning broadened from 'examine a horse' to 'test, examine, verify' in general.
收 — 丩 (jiū, cord/bind) + 攵 (rap/strike, action)
Originally written 收, this character combines 丩 'twisted cord' as the phonetic with 攵 'a hand holding a stick' as the semantic, depicting the action of binding up captives or gathering things together by force. The core sense 'to gather, collect, harvest' grew naturally from this image of rounding up and tying.