再現
さいげん · saigen · JLPT N1 · noun
reproduction
🎞️ 再 (again) + 現 (appear) = appear again: reproduction, return, revival
A film reel plays a recording back again, which matches the 'reproduction' sense. 現 also means actual or present, so revival is something real coming back into view.
再 — top 一 + 冂 frame + 土-like inner strokes
再 originally depicted a stack of fish or piled objects, suggesting accumulation or repetition. Over time it came to mean 'again' or 'once more,' emphasizing a second occurrence of an action. The modern form is stylized and no longer clearly pictographic.