傷付ける
きずつける · kizutsukeru · JLPT N1 · verb-ichidan
to wound
🩹 傷 (kizu, wound) + 付ける (tsukeru, to attach): to attach a wound to someone, physically or emotionally
付ける means to attach or apply, so 傷付ける applies a wound to a person. The same verb covers hurting someone's feelings, not just the body.
付 — person radical 亻 + hand 寸
付 originally pictured a hand (寸) reaching out to hand something to a person (亻), depicting the act of giving or delivering. The core sense 'to hand over, deliver, pay' has remained stable since ancient bronze inscriptions. It also serves as a phonetic component in characters like 附, 符, and 府.