布
ぬの · nuno · JLPT N3 · noun
fabric
🧵 布 = hand (𠂇) + 巾, the radical for a hanging cloth
巾 shows a strip of cloth hanging down, and it marks cloth words like 帽 (hat) and 帯 (sash). As a sound hook, nuno sounds like new-no: new cloth, no holes yet.
布 — hand 手 (as 𠂇) + cloth 巾
Originally a pictograph of woven cloth held in a hand, combining a hand element (𠂇) with 巾 'cloth/towel'. The core meaning 'cloth' was extended to 'spread out, display' (as cloth is unfurled), giving modern senses like 'announce' and 'arrange'.