間接
かんせつ · kansetsu · JLPT N2 · noun
indirectness
🔗 間 = between + 接 = connect: connected through something in between = indirect
間 means between or gap; 接 means connect or touch. Contact passed through a middle step or person is indirect.
接 — hand 扌 + concubine 妾 (phonetic)
接 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 carries the meaning of receiving or joining with the hand, while 妾 supplies the sound. From 'taking with the hand' it broadened to 'receive, meet, connect, join together'.