注目
ちゅうもく · chuumoku · JLPT N3 · noun
attention
👀 注目 = pour + eye: you pour your eyes onto something
注 (chuu) means pour or focus, as in 注意 (chuui, caution). 目 (moku) means eye. Pouring your eyes onto something means paying close attention to it.
注 — water 氵 + master 主 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 氵 (water) gives the meaning of pouring or flowing, while 主 supplies the sound. The original sense was 'to pour water in,' which extended to 'concentrate, focus' (as in pouring attention) and 'to annotate' (pouring explanation into a text).