風呂敷
ふろしき · furoshiki · JLPT N2 · noun
fabric
🎁 風呂 bath + 敷 spread: cloth spread out at the bathhouse to wrap clothes
Bathhouse-goers spread this cloth out to wrap their clothes after washing. 風呂 (furo) is bath; 敷 (shiki) means to spread or lay out.
敷 — 尃 (fū, phonetic) + 攵 (action)
敷 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The right side 攵 (a hand holding a stick) suggests an action, while 尃 supplies the sound and the idea of spreading or distributing. The original sense was to spread out or apply broadly, which extends to modern meanings like 'to apply' (ointment) or 'to lay out'.