拿捕 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

nábǔ

arrest

ná take

Originally written as a hand (手) taking an object. Later written as 拏 with the phonetic 奴 component added. Later the 奴 component was corrupted to 合.

奴 Sound component

nú slave

Later corrupted to the visually similar character 合.

手 Meaning component

shǒu, shou hand

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound.

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

甫 Sound component

fu begin

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		baːs
Unicode	bhò

《說文》：“捕，取也。从手，甫聲。”