情報
じょうほう · jouhou · JLPT N3 · noun
information
📰 情報 = 情 (circumstances) + 報 (report): a report on how things stand
A Meiji-era military coinage: 敵情の報告, a report on the enemy's situation, shortened to 情報. That is why it still covers both everyday information and military intelligence. 報 is the same report as in 報告 and 予報.
情 — heart radical 忄 + 青 (qīng)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The heart radical 忄 signals that the meaning involves feelings or inner states, while 青 supplies the sound 'qing'. Originally referring to genuine feelings or emotion arising from the heart, 情 expanded to cover sentiment, affection, and circumstances or situations more broadly.