好き
すき · suki · JLPT N5 · na-adj
liking
❤️ 好 = woman 女 + child 子: fondness. Sounds like SKI: I like to ski
The kanji 好 joins 女 (woman) and 子 (child), the classic sign of affection. The u is nearly silent, so すき sounds like ski. Hook: I like to SKI = suki. The き is okurigana marking the reading.
好 — woman 女 + child 子
好 is an associative compound showing a woman 女 beside a child 子, depicting a mother with her baby. From this image of maternal affection it came to mean 'good, fine, pleasing.' The reading hǎo means 'good'; read hào it means 'to like.'