摘む
つむ · tsumu · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to pluck
🍃✂️ 扌 hand radical + 啇: a hand that picks; tea-picking is 茶摘み chatsumi
The left side 扌 is the hand radical, so the kanji is about doing something with your hand. Tea picking, 茶摘み (chatsumi), is a common compound: tea + tsumi. Sound hook: tsk, mum, pluck it off the stem.
摘 — hand radical 扌 + 啇 (dí, phonetic)
摘 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 signals the meaning—an action done with the hand, namely plucking or picking (fruit, flowers). The right side 啇 supplies the sound, historically close to 'zhāi'. From 'pluck' it extended to 'select' or 'extract', as in 摘要 (summary, literally 'plucked essentials').