照る
てる · teru · JLPT N2 · verb-godan
to shine
☀️ 照 = 日 (sun radical) + 召 (sound): the sun is what makes things teru, shine
照 — 昭 (bright) phonetic + 灬 (fire radical)
照 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The bottom 灬 is a variant of 火 'fire', giving the meaning of light or illumination, while 昭 'bright' on top supplies the sound 'zhào' and reinforces the brightness sense. It originally meant to shine light on something, later extending to 'reflect', 'photograph', and 'according to'.