権力
けんりょく · kenryoku · JLPT N1 · noun
power
👑 権 (authority) + 力 (power) = authority-power: the power a position grants you
権 means right or authority, and 力 means force or power. Together they name power backed by a right to rule or decide, such as a government's authority.
力 — pictograph of a plow or arm muscle
力 originated as a pictograph of an ancient plow, the main tool requiring physical exertion in early agriculture. Some scholars also see it as a flexed arm showing muscle. From this concrete image it broadened to mean 'strength, power, force, effort'.