介抱
かいほう · kaihou · JLPT N1 · noun
looking after
🩺 介 (help) + 抱 (hold): nursing means helping and holding up someone who is ill or weak
抱 appears in 抱っこ, holding a baby in your arms, which matches the hands-on side of care. 介 appears in 紹介, introduction, where it means to stand between and bring together.
抱 — hand radical 扌 + wrap 包
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 gives the meaning, indicating an action done with the hands, while 包 ('wrap, bundle') supplies the sound 'bāo/bào' and hints at enclosing. Together they depict wrapping something in the arms — to hold, embrace, or carry.