捉拿 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

zhuōná

arrest

zhuō grasp

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

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

足 Sound component

zú foot

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搤也。从手足聲。一曰握也。

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