招く
まねく · maneku · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to invite
🐱 招 = hand 扌 + summon 召: it beckons you over, like the maneki-neko cat
The lucky waving cat in shop windows is the 招き猫 (maneki-neko), the cat that 招く, or beckons customers in. 招く means to invite, beckon or call someone over, and by extension to bring about a result.
招 — hand radical 扌 + 召 (call)
招 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 supplies the meaning—an action done with the hand—while 召 (to summon, call) gives both phonetic value and reinforces the sense. Together they depict beckoning someone with a hand gesture, extended to 'recruit' or 'attract'.