豊作
ほうさく · housaku · JLPT N1 · noun
crop
🌾 豊 = abundant + 作 = crop or harvest, so 豊作 = abundant crop = bumper crop
豊 (ho, plentiful) and 作 (saku, a crop or the act of growing) combine into one word for an exceptionally large harvest. Its opposite is 不作, a poor harvest.
作 — person radical 亻 + 乍
作 combines the person radical 亻 with 乍, which originally depicted a sudden action or making something. The character means 'to do, make, or create,' with 亻 indicating human activity and 乍 supplying the sound. Over time it broadened to cover works, deeds, and acting as something.