引越し
ひっこし · hikkoshi · JLPT N3 · noun
moving
📦🚚 引越し = 引く pull + 越す cross over: pull your stuff across to a new home
引く (hiku) means to pull and 越す (kosu) means to cross over. Together they become ひっこし: you haul your belongings over to a new address. The verb form is 引っ越す (hikkosu), to move house.
引 — bow 弓 + vertical stroke 丨
A compound ideograph showing a bow 弓 with a vertical line 丨 representing the drawn bowstring. The original meaning was 'to draw a bow,' which extended to 'pull,' 'lead,' 'guide,' and 'cite.' The vertical stroke depicts the action of pulling the string back.
越 — 走 (run) + 戉 (axe, phonetic)
Originally a phono-semantic compound: 走 ('to run, go') gives the meaning of crossing or passing over, while 戉 (an ancient axe) supplies the sound. From 'to stride across' it extended to 'exceed, surpass,' and was later borrowed as the name of the ancient Yue state and people in southern China.