接続
せつぞく · setsuzoku · JLPT N2 · noun
connection
🔗 接 (connect, touch) + 続 (continue) = connections that keep continuing, like a chain
接 means join or touch, and 続 means continue or follow on. Together they describe things joined so they keep running as one, like links in a chain.
接 — hand 扌 + concubine 妾 (phonetic)
接 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 carries the meaning of receiving or joining with the hand, while 妾 supplies the sound. From 'taking with the hand' it broadened to 'receive, meet, connect, join together'.