彫刻
ちょうこく · choukoku · JLPT N2 · noun
sculpture
🗿 彫 + 刻 = carve + carve: two near-synonyms for carving stacked into one word
Both characters mean to carve or engrave; 刻 also means a moment in time. Choukoku is the noun for the finished carved work.
刻 — knife radical 刂 + 亥 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The right side 亥 supplies the sound, while the knife radical 刂 on the right gives the meaning, since 刻 originally referred to carving or engraving with a blade. From 'to carve' it extended to marking time notches on a sundial, hence the modern sense of 'a moment' or 'quarter hour'.