火傷
やけど · yakedo · JLPT N2 · noun
burn
🔥 火傷 = fire + wound: a burn is a wound made by fire
Read 火 (hi, fire) and 傷 (kizu, wound): fire plus wound gives burn. The reading やけど (yakedo) comes from 焼ける (yakeru, to be burnt) plus a kind of wound, so the sound also points to burning.
火 — pictograph of flames rising
火 is a pictograph showing flames rising upward from a fire, with the central stroke as the main blaze and the side strokes as sparks. The ancient oracle bone form looked even more clearly like a burning flame. It still means 'fire' today and serves as a common radical in characters related to heat, burning, or cooking.