叫び
さけび · sakebi · JLPT N1 · noun
cry
📢 叫ぶ (sakebu, to cry out) becomes the noun 叫び; it sounds like sake plus bee, a shout
The kanji 叫 has the mouth radical 口, marking a sound made with the mouth. The verb 叫ぶ drops ぶ to form the noun 叫び, the outcry itself.
叫 — mouth 口 + 丩 (phonetic)
叫 is a phono-semantic compound. The 口 (mouth) radical gives the meaning, since the word involves vocal action like shouting or calling. The right side 丩 supplies the sound, originally depicting twisted cords and used here purely as a phonetic marker.