魄力
pò lì · HSK 7
courage
💪 魄力 = 魄 spirit/soul + 力 strength; spirit-strength is boldness
魄 is the bodily soul and 力 is force or power, so the pairing reads as soul-force: the inner drive that powers daring and resolute action. The pò syllable also sits in 魄 itself, an easy sound peg.
力 — pictograph of a plow or arm muscle
力 originated as a pictograph of an ancient plow, the main tool requiring physical exertion in early agriculture. Some scholars also see it as a flexed arm showing muscle. From this concrete image it broadened to mean 'strength, power, force, effort'.