修理
しゅうり · shuuri · JLPT N3 · noun
repairing
🔧 修理 = fix (修) + logic/order (理): put it back in order
修 means to mend or fix, as in 修正 (correction). 理 means reason or order, as in 理由 (reason) and 料理 (cooking). Repairing is fixing something back into proper order. Sound hook: shuuri starts like shoe — a shoe repair.
修 — 亻 person + 攸 (phonetic) + 彡 hair/decoration
修 combines 攸 (a phonetic component originally showing a person being washed) with 彡, which depicts flowing hair or ornamental strokes. The 彡 element suggests grooming, polishing, or adorning, giving 修 its core meaning of cultivating, repairing, or refining oneself or things.
理 — jade radical 玉/王 + village 里 (phonetic)
理 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the jade radical 王 (玉) on the left signals meaning, while 里 on the right gives the sound. It originally meant the natural veins or grain in a piece of jade, then extended to 'pattern,' 'order,' 'principle,' and finally the modern senses 'reason' and 'to manage.'