天花板 (tiān huā bǎn)

Character breakdown

• 天 (tiān) · 4 strokes

  Depicts a person (大) with an emphasized head. Based on the original meaning "head". The meaning later shifted to "top", "high", and "sky".

• 花 (Huā) · 7 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 化 represents the sound.

• 板 (bǎn) · 8 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 反 represents the sound.