捕鯨
ほげい · hogei · JLPT N1 · noun
whaling
🐋 捕 = catch + 鯨 = whale, so 捕鯨 literally means whale-catching
捕 means catch or capture, as in 逮捕 (arrest). 鯨 means whale. Put them together and you get whaling.
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.