捕虜
ほりょ · horyo · JLPT N1 · noun
prisoner of war
🪖 捕 = catch + 虜 = captive: someone seized in war is a prisoner of war
虜 originally meant an enemy taken alive in battle, and 捕 means to seize. Together they name a person captured by force in war.
捕 — hand radical 扌 + 甫 (phonetic)
捕 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 (手) signals an action done with the hand, while 甫 supplies the sound (related to bǔ/fǔ). Together they convey 'to seize' or 'to catch' with the hand, as in capturing a person or animal.