発行
はっこう · hakkou · JLPT N3 · noun
issue
📰 発行 = send out + go: a magazine sent out the door is issued
発 means to emit or depart (as in 出発, departure) and 行 means to go or carry out. Together: to send something out into the world, like issuing a magazine, a passport, or a ticket. Note: 発酵, also read はっこう, means fermentation.
行 — crossroads pictograph (left 彳 + right 亍)
行 originally pictured a four-way crossroads in oracle bone script, with two paths meeting. From 'road' it extended to 'walk, go, travel,' and then to 'a row, line' or 'business firm' (read háng). The two halves 彳 and 亍 are the split sides of that ancient crossroads.