敬意 (jìng yì)

Character breakdown

• 敬 (jìng) · 12 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 茍 represents the sound and 攵 represents the meaning.

• 意 (Yì) · 13 strokes

  Thought (意) is the sound (音) that comes from the mind (心). (Oversimplified for brevity. The 音 component in this character has a complicated history.)