穫

It is a phono-semantic compound, composed of:

禾 (grain, rice plant) – semantic element, indicating crops and agriculture;

蒦 (hwak, seize, grasp) – phonetic element, also contributing to the sense of “taking, gathering.”

穫 depicts gathering grain (禾) with the idea of grasping or taking (蒦), and therefore came to mean harvest, reap, gain.

Semantic range:

- to harvest, reap grain – cutting and gathering ripe rice or crops.

- to obtain, gain – extended meaning, as in reaping results or benefits.

- harvest, yield – by noun usage, the gathered crops.

It is widely used across East Asia in both the literal agricultural sense and the extended metaphorical sense of “reaping results.”

수확 (收穫) – harvest, crop yield

확득 (穫得) – to gain, to obtain (classical usage)

풍수확 (豊收穫) – rich harvest

In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the component above 蒦 is written with ⻀ (ram's horn component), which is the orthodox form found in the Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字 ( Shuōwén Jiězì)).

In mainland China (based on Xin Zixing, 新字形), Japanese kanji, Korean hanja and Vietnamese Nôm, the component above 蒦 is written with 艹 (grass radical), which is based on the Kangxi dictionary.