要するに
ようするに · yousuruni · JLPT N3 · expression
in short …
📌 要 = the essential point + するに = in doing: in doing the gist, in short
要 (yō) means the vital point, as in 要点 (main point). 要する means to boil something down to its essence, so 要するに means boiled down, in short. Sound hook: yō, sum it up.
要 — west 覀 (top) + woman 女 (bottom)
Originally a pictograph of a woman with hands on her waist, meaning 'waist' (the original form of 腰). The top 覀 is a stylized depiction of the waist area, not the character for 'west'. Over time it was borrowed for the meaning 'to want, important', so 腰 (with 月 flesh radical) was created for the original 'waist' sense.