滑稽
こっけい · kokkei · JLPT N1 · na-adj
funny
🃏 滑 = slippery, 稽 = check: a smooth talker whose jokes slip past you
Originally meant a fast, slippery talker who could never be pinned down, and later came to mean amusing. Say kok-kay, with a short kok and then kay.
滑 — water radical 氵 + bone 骨
A semantic-phonetic compound: 氵 (water) gives the meaning of slipperiness, while 骨 (bone) supplies the sound. The original sense was 'slippery,' as water makes surfaces hard to grip, and it later extended to 'smooth' and figuratively 'cunning' or 'sly.'